Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 53 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 65The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
- 531Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria).
- 797Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after Constantine dies of his wounds, and Irene proclaims herself basileus.
- 1012Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, England.
- 1529Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
- 1539Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt.
- In Ireland, O'Doherty’s Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry
- The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
- With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa (not actually born until 1717).
- Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
- Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
- American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- John Adams secures the Dutch Republic’s recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
- An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
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- The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteeing its neutrality.
- Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
- American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
- Funeral service for Abraham Lincoln is held in the East Room of the White House.
- Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- Léo Taxil exposes his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
- The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
- Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
- Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
- Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
- World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
- Burma joins the United Nations.
- Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
