Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 54 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 406Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
- 535Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
- 1225The Lý dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoàng, starting the Trần dynasty.
- 1229James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca.
- 1501The First Battle of Cannanore commences.
- The British East India Company is chartered.
- James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
- The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
- A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.
- Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.
- Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
- American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
- Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
- The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.
- Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
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- A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.
- Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
- American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
- American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
- Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
- Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
- Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
- The first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York.
- Manhattan Bridge opens.
- The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
- World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
- World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front begins.
- President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
- The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
- General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
