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Historical Events

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

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  • 557
    Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.
  • 835
    Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
  • 1287
    St. Lucia’s flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
  • 1542
    Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.
  • The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first military academy in the world.
  • The Montgolfier brothers’ first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
  • The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
  • War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
  • Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
  • The Toledo War unofficially ends.
  • The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
  • Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
  • The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
  • The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
  • The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather’s Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

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  • New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
  • Roald Amundsens team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
  • Japanese battleship Haruna, the fourth and last sclass- Kongō ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
  • Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
  • Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
  • Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
  • World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.
  • The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York, New York.
  • Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of Real Madrid C.F., staged its first football match.
  • Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations.
  • The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
  • Tanganyika joins the United Nations.
  • NASA’s Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
  • The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.