1027: Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Salian dynasty 1812: Earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela and kills an estimated 15,000–20,000 people 1871: Municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris to form Commune government 1909: In support of Mohammed Ali Shah’s coup d’etat against the constitutional government […]
1821: The Greek Revolution begins 31: Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus 1436: Florentine cathedral Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore with then the largest dome in the world by Filippo Brunelleschi, consecrated by Pope Eugene IV (begun 1296) 1807: British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains 1895: Italian […]
1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns 1837 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote 1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and establishes germ theory 1976 Argentine President Isabel Martínez […]
1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides “Mishneh Torah”, a code of Jewish religious law is published 1775 Patrick Henry proclaims “Give me liberty or give me death” in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war 1919 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the […]
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 […]
