Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 708Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
- 1261Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.
- 1315Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
- 1350Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
- 1475The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
- 1484Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
- 1498Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
- 1521The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
- 1526Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
- 1541The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.
- Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War.
- The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
- American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
- Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
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- British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
- Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
- Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
- American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
- The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first mountain-climbing rack railway.
- Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
- Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
- Rugby league is founded by 22 clubs at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
- The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five sclass- Borodinos, is launched.
- The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
- Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
- Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
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