Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 58 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 404 BCPeloponnesian War: Lysander’s Spartan armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
- 775The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over Transcaucasia is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.
- 799After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.
- 1134The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
- Eighty Years’ War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
- The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
- A coalition of England, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- “La Marseillaise” (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
- Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
- Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
- The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
- The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal’s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
- British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
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- American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- American Civil War: The Battle of Marks’ Mills.
- Tonkin Campaign: French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
- Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
- New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
- Easter Rising: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
- Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class “A” League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
- U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- Merkið, the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation government.
- The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
- The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
- Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape. This day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.
