1622: First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed 1765: Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on American colonists, organized by Prime Minister George Grenville 1784: The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand 1832: British Parliament, led by Charles Grey, passes the Reform Act, introducing wide-ranging changes to […]
1349: Between 100 and 3,000 Jews are killed in Black Death riots in Erfurt, Germany 1804: Napoleonic Code adopted in France, stresses clearly written and accessible law 1871: Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa 1975: Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years 2014: Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation Source: Onthisday.com
1602: United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms 1800: Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London 1815: Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule 1900: US Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an ‘open […]
1279: A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China 1644: 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor 1863: Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years […]
1123: 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome, agreements of the Concordat of Worms ratified 1314: Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake by King Philip IV of France 1325: According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date on an island in what […]
432: Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date) 1521: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines 1861: Italy is unified into a single kingdom under Victor Emmanuel II following the campaigns led by Giuseppe Garibaldi 1905: Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of […]
597 BC: Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king 1527: Battle of Khanua: Mughal Emperor Babur defeats Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga consolidating Mughal power 1660: English Long Parliament disbands 1792: King gustav iii of Sweden is shot by Count Jacob Johan Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29 1867: First publication of an article […]
44 BC: Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome 221: Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty 1493: Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World 1783: In […]
1590: Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states 1900: Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel’s laws of genetics 1900: US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act 1943: World War II: Kraków Ghetto […]
624: Battle of Badr: Muhammad’s Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan army 1591: Battle at Tondibi: Moroccan army under Judar defeats Sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai 1781: William Herschel sees what he thinks is a “comet” but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus 1884: Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months 1903: Fall […]
