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The following events took place on October 15. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 52 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1066

  Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England, but is never crowned. He reigns until 10 December 1066.
• 1211

  Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
• 1529

  The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
• 1582

  Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
• 1764

  Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• 1783

  The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon (tethered) makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
• 1793

  Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
• 1815

  Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1863

  American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
• 1864

  American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
• 1878

  The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• 1888

  The “From Hell” letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
• 1894

  The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
• 1904

  The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1910

  Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
• 1917

  World War I: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
• 1923

  The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
• 1928

  The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
• 1932

  Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
• 1934

  The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek’s National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
• 1939

  The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
• 1940

  The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
• 1944

  The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler’s NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
• 1945

  World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
• 1946

  United Nations Security Council Resolution 9 relating to ICJ is adopted.
• 1951

  Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
• 1951

  The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
• 1953

  British nuclear test Totem 1 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
• 1954

  Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far south as North Carolina.
• 1956

  Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.

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