680: Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers are killed at Karbala by the army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on their way to Kufa 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 hits Barbados and goes on to kill 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Caribbean, making it the Atlantic’s deadliest recorded hurricane 1871: The Great Chicago […]
768: Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are both crowned King of the Franks 1000: Leif Ericson reaches “Vinland” (possibly L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada), reputedly becoming the first European to reach North America 1446: Korean Hangul alphabet is first published by King Sejong the Great 1831: Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first Head of State of modern […]
1480: Great Stand on the Ugra river: Standoff between forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde and Ivan III, Grand Prince of all Rus. Ends with a Tatar-Mongol retreat, leading to the disintegration of the Horde. 1769: Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand for the first time, near present-day Gisborne on the […]
1571: Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations formed by Pope Pius V destroy an Ottoman fleet in a significant loss off Western Greece 1737: A cyclone causes 40-foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Calcutta, India 1763: George III of Great Britain issues the Proclamation of 1763, closing lands […]
1917: Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides 1948: Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic 1948: Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on […]
1274: Around 1,000 soldiers of the Mongol army land on the Japanese island of Tsushima in the first attack of Kublai 1789: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the king […]
1537: First printing in England of the complete English-language Bible, the “Matthew’s Bible,” with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale (an update of the earlier “Coverdale Bible”) [exact month/day unclear] [1] 1582: Last Julian calendar day in Spain, Portugal, and the Papal States. To sync to the Gregorian calendar 10 days are skipped, and […]
2333 BC: State of Gojoseon (modern-day Korea) is founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of Chinese Emperor Yao 52 BC: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia 1283: Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, Wales, becomes the first person executed by being […]
1187: Sultan of Egypt Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders 1492: King Henry VII of England invades France 1789: George Washington transmits the proposed constitutional amendments (United States Bill of Rights) to the states for ratification 1928: “Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God”, known as Opus Dei, founded by Catholic priest […]
331 BC: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela 1688: Prince William of Orange accepts invitation to take up the British crown 1814: Opening of the Congress of Vienna, redraws Europe’s political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte 1867: Karl Marx publishes “Das Kapital” in Berlin, a description […]
