1558: 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) 1821: Russian Antarctic Expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen returns to Kronshtadt after becoming the 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica 1942: 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz 1944: Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified 1993: Rwandian Hutus and Tutsis […]
1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with three ships, Santa María, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for the “Indies” 1596: David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star) 1914: Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I 1934: Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring […]
338 BC: Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean 216 BC: Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army under command consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro […]
527: Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire 1086: Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable) 1774: English chemist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state 1834: Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect, abolishes slavery throughout the British Empire 1958: US atomic […]
1099: First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem 1456: Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats Sultan Murad II 1515: First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire – rise of the Habsburgs influence 1942: Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent […]
356 BC Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World 365 Crete Earthquake followed by tsunami around the Eastern Mediterranean allegedly destroys Alexandria 1861: First Battle of Bull Run [Battle of First Manassas], 1st major battle of the US Civil War is fought near Manassas, Virginia, Confederate victory […]
1881: Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops 1921: Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives 1969: Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module 1976: US […]
1595: Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe while teaching in Graz 1843: The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world 1848: 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca […]
64: Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”) 1936: Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leads an uprising in the Spanish army stationed in Morocco 2012: Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea […]
180 6 inhabitants of Carthage, North Africa executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in this part of the world. 1203 Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade; Roman Catholic Crusaders aboard a Venetian fleet attack the city 1762 Catherine II becomes Tsarina of Russia following the murder of Peter III 1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their […]
