406: 80,000 Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine at Mainz, beginning invasion of Gallia 1703: Genroku earthquake off the coast of Japan, near Edo (modern-day Tokyo), kills thousands and triggers a large tsunami killing thousands more 1744: English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion or wobble 1775: Battle of Quebec: American […]
1460: Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces of King Henry VI 1906: The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, later laid down the foundations of Pakistan 1922: Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow […]
1835: Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States 1845: Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union 1903: French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari (Central […]
1065: New church devoted to St Peter the Apostle built by Edward the Confessor – later called the ‘west minister’ consecrated in London (rebuilt mid 13th century) [1] 1612: First observation of Neptune – Galileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realising it is a planet 1767: King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and […]
1512: Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World 1657: “Flushing Remonstrance” petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship 1939: Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 earthquake in Erzincam, Turkey 1945: International […]
1492: 1st Spanish settlement La Navidad in the New World is founded by Christopher Columbus (modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas in Haiti) 1792: Trial of French King Louis XVI, court hears the kings defense brought by Raymond Desèze 1825: Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins [O.S. 14 December] 2004: 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami […]
1: 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus 800: Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman Emperor 1066: William the Conqueror is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, completing the Norman conquest of England 1741: Astronomer Anders Celsius introduces Centigrade temperature scale 1868: Despite bitter opposition, US President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional […]
1565: Compromise of the Nobles in Habsburg Netherlands closes against inquisition 1814: Treaty of Ghent signed, ending the War of 1812 between the United States, the United Kingdom and their allies 1936: 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered in Berkeley, California 1943: US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower Supreme Commander of the Allied forces Source: Onthisday.com
962: Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under future Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist 1688: King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange 1783: US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army […]
1790: Supposedly impenetrable Turkish fortress of Izmail stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) 1885: Samurai Itō Hirobumi, becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan 1989: After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu 1990: Labor activist Lech Wałęsa sworn in as Poland’s first […]
