1177: Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem defeats Saladin and a larger Ayyubid force 1783: Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in the United States 1839: Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 […]
380: Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople 1639: 1st observation of Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree – helped establish size of the Solar System 1642: Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) 1859: English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species” radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for […]
1248: Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates 1644: “Areopagitica”, a pamphlet by John Milton decrying censorship, is published 1869: The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving 2018: US Federal Climate report finds climate change will reduce economy by 10% […]
1497: Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India 1926: Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth 1935: Flying boat “China Clipper” takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight 1963: US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped […]
164 BC: During Maccabbean revolt Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jersusalem and rededicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah 1818: Russia’s Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestin 1906: China prohibits the opium trade 1970: General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following a military coup 1971: Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops aided by the Mukti […]
284: Roman soldier Diocletian proclaimed Emperor by the army 762: Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire 1695: Zumbi, the last King of the Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and ex-slave, is executed and decapitated, his head displayed on a pike to dispel any legends of his immortality 1815: Second Treaty of Paris: France and […]
1530 The Recess document resulting from the Diet of Augsburg signed by Charles V and catholic princes 1620: The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast 1805: Lewis and Clark Expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west 1863: US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; “Four score and seven years ago…” […]
1477: First English dated printed book “Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers” by William Caxton at his press in London 1626: St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site and becoming the world’s largest Christian basilica 1916: British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the 1st Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers […]
1558: Elizabeth I aged 25, ascends the English throne upon death of her half sister, Queen “Bloody” Mary 1800: Congress holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building 1831: Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia 1855: David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe 1869: Suez Canal in […]
534: Second and final revision of the Justinian Code published, a codified set of imperial and classical laws begun initially in 528 1532: Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa after a surprise ambush at Cajamarca in the Peruvian Andes 1776: British troops capture Fort Washington during American Revolution 1945: Founding of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizat Source: […]
