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Historical Events

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

Found 58 events. Showing 1 - 30.

  • 392
    Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
  • 476
    Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
  • 565
    Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
  • 851
    Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
  • 1138
    Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
  • 1485
    The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
  • 1559
    Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
  • Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
  • Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
  • Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
  • Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker’s Quebec Expedition flounders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
  • Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
  • James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
  • American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
  • James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).

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  • Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
  • French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen’s Irish Rebellion.
  • José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
  • Nat Turner’s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
  • The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
  • The United States annexes New Mexico.
  • The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
  • The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
  • Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention.
  • The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
  • Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
  • Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
  • Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na Bláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
  • The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)

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