1485: Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor’s forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle. 1639: Madras (now Chennai), India, founded by the British East India Company on sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers 1642: English Civil War begins between […]
1192: Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192) 1703: The Edirne Event: Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II, lessening the power of the sultans 1772: King Gustav III of Sweden completes a coup d’etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot, ending 50 […]
1597: 1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East 1619: 1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude. 1741: Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition 1866: President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War […]
43 BC: Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul 1839: Details of Louis Daguerre’s 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris 1942: World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France 1988: Iran and Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) 1991: Conservative members […]
1737: First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris 1838: United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica 1914: US President Woodrow Wilson issues “Proclamation of Neutrality” 1919: Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois 1920: 22 year old representative Harry T. Burn is deciding vote in Tennessee’s and […]
1590: Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591] 1903: Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America 1945: Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands […]
1896: Gold first discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek in the Yukon, Canada by George Carmack 1930: I British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Canada 1945: Puyi, the last Chinese Emperor and ruler of Manchukuo is captured by Soviet troops 1946: Direct Action Day: Widespread riots erupt in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus over whether Pakistan should be […]
1461: Empire of Trebizond surrenders to forces of Sultan Mehmet II – last Byzantine Empire remnant to fall. Emperor David exiled and later murdered. 1620: Mayflower sets sail from Southampton, England, with 102 Pilgrims 1900: The Boxer Rebellion: In China, the Empress, her family and court retainers flee while foreign troops move through Peking in an attempt to […]
1281: During Kublai Khan’s second Mongol invasion of Japan his invading Chinese fleet of 3,500 vessels disappears in a typhoon near Japan 1842: Second Seminole War declared over by US Army Colonel Worth, after nearly 7 years; more than 3000 Seminole Nation survivors re-located from Florida to Oklahoma, only about 300 allowed to remain [1] 1945: V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to […]
1521: Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire 1536: Buddhist monks from Kyōto’s Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536). 1642: Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Mars’ southern polar cap 1788: Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to […]
