43 BC: Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leaders formed by Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony 1778: British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) 1789: First national Thanksgiving in America 1791: First US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington’s home […]
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 southeastern India with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge, destroying the city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and […]
380: Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople Crabtree watching the Transit of Venus in 1639 by Ford Maddox BrownTransit of Venus 1639: First observation of the transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree, helps establish the size of the solar system 1642: Dutch explorer Abel Tasman is the […]
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: Clipper Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, Scotland, as one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving 2018: US Federal Climate […]
1497: Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope on the first voyage from Europe to reach India 1926: Imperial Conference ends, granting autonomy within the British Commonwealth 1935: Flying boat “China Clipper” takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight 1963: US President […]
164 BC: During the Maccabean Revolt Judas Maccabeus recaptures Jerusalem and rededicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah 1818: Russia’s Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1906: China prohibits the opium trade 1970: General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following a military coup 1971: Battle of […]
284: Roman General Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by the armies of the East and West after the death of Carinus at the Battle of the Margus 762: Khan of the Uyghurs, Bögü Qaghan, conquers Luoyang, the capital of the Chinese Empire 1695: Zumbi, the last King of the Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and […]
1530: The final decree of the Diet of Augsburg, “The Recess,” is signed by Charles V and Catholic princes, reaffirming Catholic rites and principles after the departure of Protestant 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 […]
1477: First English dated printed book “Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers” by William Caxton is printed at his press in London 1626: St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated in Rome, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site and becoming the world’s largest Christian church 1916: British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the First […]
1558: Elizabeth I, aged 25, ascends the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I 1831: Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Gran Colombia 1855: David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe 1869: Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking the Mediterranean and Red […]
