3114 BC: Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar). 1522: Ferdinand Magellan’s Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnavigate the earth. 1666: After St Paul’s Cathedral and much of the city had been burned down over four days, The Great Fire of London is finally extinguished. […]
1666: Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead 1774: Twelve of the thirteen American colonies adopt a trade embargo against Great Britain at the first Continental Congress at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1839: The First Opium War begins in China 2017: Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region […]
476: Romulus Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Traditional End of the Western Roman Empire. 1609: Navigator Henry Hudson is the first European to discover island of Manhattan [or Sep 11] 1781: Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes) 1862: General Lee begins the Maryland […]
301: San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world’s oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus 1650: Battle of Dunbar; Oliver Cromwell’s English New Model Army defeats Scottish force in surprise attack 1783: Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America […]
31 BC: Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian’s forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece. 1192: Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade 1666: Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed 1792: September Massacres of […]
1715: King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch. 1878: 1st female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company in Boston 1905: Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta and Saskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada as its 8th and 9th Canadian provinces 1939: World War II starts when […]
1142: Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League [disputed date – other research places date between 1450 and 1660] 1888: The body of Jack the Ripper’s first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel in London’s East End 1917: In China, Sun Yat-sen and his supporters’ ‘rump’ parliament establishes a military government and elects Sun Yat-sen as commander-in-Chief […]
1146: European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time 1363: Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty 1590: Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: […]
1526: Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Hungarian Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent 1825: Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil 1842: Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ending the Opium war 1862: Second Battle of Bull Run, fought in Manassas, Virginia begins, Confederate victory (US Civil War) 1949: USSR performs […]
1189: Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan 1609: English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay 1830: 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won! 1845: Scientific American magazine publishes […]
