1858: First vision of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France 1929: Vatican City, the world’s smallest country, is made an enclave of Rome 1975: Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party 1990: Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa 2011: Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to […]
60: St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta 1720: Edmond Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory 1763: Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain 1824: Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru 1879: Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo 1906: British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all […]
1775: British Parliament declares Massachusetts colony in rebellion 1904:Japanese land troops at Chemulpo (Inchon), near Seoul, Korea; within the next three weeks they will have advanced to the Yalu River, the border of Manchuria 1943: Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific 1972: British government declares state […]
1587: Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot 1672: Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London 1807: Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon’s forces and Russian Empire – 1st battle Napoleon isn’t victorious 1960: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating […]
1238: The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir 1301: Edward of Caernarfon (later Edward II) becomes the first (English) Prince of Wales 1842: Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien 1856: Colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the 1st piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere […]
1508: Maximilian I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, 1st Emperor in centuries not to be crowned by the Pope 1778: France recognizes USA, signs Treaty of Alliance in Paris, 1st US treaty 1819: Stamford Raffles founds Singapore as a British trading port 1840: The Treaty of Waitangi is signed between 40 Māori Chiefs (later signed by 500) and representatives of the British crown […]
1576: Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours 1597: A group of early Japanese Christians, known as the 26 Martyrs, are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society 1885: News of the fall of Khartoum reaches London 1885: King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as […]
211: Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta 960: Coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of the Song, initiating three centuries of Song Dynasty dominance in southern China 1789: 1st US electoral college chooses George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice President 1859: One of the oldest known copies of the […]
1451: Sultan Mehmed II, the Conqueror inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire 1509: The Battle of Diu, naval battle at port of Diu, India between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire, establishes Portuguese trading control 1870: US state of Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races & colour 1928: Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black reports his […]
1653: New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York) 1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican–American War: US acquires Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million 1901: Queen Victoria’s Funeral takes place in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, England 1922: James Joyce’s “Ulysses” published in Paris (1,000 copies) 1943: German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of […]
