Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 338 BCA Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
- 216 BCSecond Punic War: Battle of Cannae: The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
- 461Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
- 1274Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
- 1343Olivier de Clisson is found guilty of treason and beheaded at Les Halles in Paris. As a result, his wife, Jeanne de Clisson, sold their holding, bought a fleet of ships, and took to the sea as a pirate to seek revenge against King Philip VI of France and the nobility.
- 1377Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River.
- Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
- The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
- The first United States Census is conducted.
- French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
- Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
- Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
- Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
- The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
- Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India’s North West Frontier Province.
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- Fall of the Ottoman Empire: An unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
- World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
- Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
- The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
- A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
- Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
- The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
- Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
- The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
- Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
- Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
- World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
- ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
- World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
- World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.
