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Historical Events

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

Found 47 events. Showing 1 - 30.

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  • 491
    Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
  • 1079
    Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
  • 1241
    Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
  • 1512
    War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
  • 1544
    French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.
  • William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
  • War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War): Treaty of Utrecht.
  • Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
  • Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
  • The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
  • Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
  • Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
  • Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.

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  • SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches.
  • The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • The Nevill Ground’s pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.
  • The International Labour Organization is founded.
  • Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
  • Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
  • The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
  • The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
  • The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
  • United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
  • The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
  • Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.
  • The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
  • President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.