1534: Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad 1563: Council of Trent holds its last session after 18 years, the last ecumenical council for more than 300 years Famous and historically inaccurate painting of the English Pilgrims and Native American Wampanoag gathering and sharing a mealThe First Thanksgiving 1619: Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish, England, […]
1586: Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia 1854: Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences 1967: First human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr. […]
1804: General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII 1823: US President James Monroe declares the “Monroe Doctrine” opposing European colonialism in the Americas, arguing any European political intervention in the New World would be a hostile act against the […]
1913: Ford Motor Company institutes the world’s first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford 1934: Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her […]
1016: King of Denmark Cnut the Great [Canute] claims the English throne after the death of Edmund Ironside The German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot)German Beer Purity Law 1487: The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – […]
526: Possible date of the Antioch earthquake in the Byzantine Empire (present-day Syria) which killed 200,000 people 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle Thomas Edison with his second phonograph, photographed in 1878Thomas Edison’s Phonograph 1877: US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time 1935: Physicist […]
1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean 1814: The Times of London is first printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, making newspapers available to a mass audience 1893: Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general […]
1095: Pope Urban II preaches to the West to wrest control of the Holy Land from the Seljuk Turks at the Council of Clermont, triggering the First Crusade 1295: English King Edward I calls what later becomes known as “The Model Parliament,” extending the authority of its representatives 1493: Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad […]
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 […]
