30 BC: Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves minor victory over Octavian, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to Octavian’s invasion of Egypt 1620: Pilgrim Fathers depart Leiden, Netherlands for England on their way to America 1917: World War I: Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) begins, goes on to cause approximately 500,000 casualties 1961: Israel welcomes its one […]
1178: Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy 1419: First defenestration of Prague: anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm Prague town hall and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members out the windows. They die in the fall or killed by crowd outside. 1619: House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective […]
1588: The “Invincible” Spanish Armada is sighted approaching England, several skirmishes follow forcing the invading fleet to make a long and costly retreat around Scotland and Ireland 1609: Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years 1848: Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – […]
1794: French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of “the Terror” guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris 1914: Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia – first declaration of war of WWI 1917: Silent Parade organised by James Weldon Johnson of 10,000 African-Americans who march on 5th Ave in NYC to protest against lynching 1943: Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg […]
1586: Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia 1689: Battle of Killicrankie: Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist force under General MacKay 1789: US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department 1866: First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s […]
657: Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River 1519: Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America 1533: Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Sapa Inca Emperor, Atahualpa 1803: The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London 1908: United […]
306: Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops 1814: English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher 1943: Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III 1944: World War II: Operation Spring – one of Canada’s bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties […]
1534: French explorer Jacques Cartier claims for France the lands around Gaspé by erecting a 30ft cross at Pointe-Penouille 1567: Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots 1832: Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming’s South Pass 1911: American explorer Hiram Bingham Discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the […]
1215: Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen 1777: American Revolution: Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply US with munitions 1829: William Austin Burt patents America’s first “typographer” (typewriter) 1840: Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada 1944: Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin […]
1099: First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem 1456: Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats Sultan Murad II 1515: First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire – rise of the Habsburgs influence 1942: Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent […]
