Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 45 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 526King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
- 1282Peter III of Aragon, originally traveling with his fleet on a military expedition against the Hafsid Kingdom, ends up in the Sicilian town of Trapani, after he was asked by the inhabitants of Palermo to help in the fight against Charles of Anjou.
- 1363Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
- 1464Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
- 1574Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
- Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
- Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
- HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
- The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
- Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
- First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
- Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek “Red Sticks” kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
- Melbourne is founded.
- The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
- American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
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- Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
- Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
- The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
- Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
- Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
- Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
- Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (“Turkish War of Independence”).
- The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
- World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
- Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
- The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
- The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
- The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
- The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
