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 […]
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 quell […]
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 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 […]
1121: Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi 1480: Battle of Otranto – Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam 1851: American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine 1908: Henry Ford’s company builds the first Model T car 1981: IBM introduces its first […]
3114: BC The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins 1945: Allies refuse Japan’s offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status 1954: Formal peace treaty ends over 7 yrs of fighting in Indochina between the French and the Communist Viet Minh 1988: Al-Qaeda formed at a meeting between Osama bin […]
612 BC: Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh. 610: In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur’an 1497: John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to “Asia” 1675: King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London 1846: US Act of Congress passes […]
48 BC: Caesar’s civil war: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. 378: Battle of Adrianople: Goth army defeats Roman forces under Emperor Valens, who is killed 1790: Robert Gray’s Columbia Rediviva returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st American ship to circumnavigate the Globe 1898: Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent […]
1509: Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India 1609: Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei’s telescope 1786: US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America 1945: USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea 1974: US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next […]
1461: Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor 1714: The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden 1933: The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day. 1955: Tokyo Telecommunications […]
