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Historical Events

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

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  • 497 BC
    The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
  • 546
    Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
  • 920
    Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
  • 942
    Assassination of William I of Normandy.
  • 1398
    Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud’s armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
  • 1538
    Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
  • Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
  • Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.
  • Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
  • War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
  • American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.
  • Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
  • Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
  • War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
  • The Sûreté Nationale, the national police force of France, is founded, headed by Eugène François Vidocq.

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  • Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
  • Great Fire of New York: Fire levels lower Manhattan.
  • A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.
  • American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
  • First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
  • First issue of Vogue is published
  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
  • The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
  • Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
  • Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
  • Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
  • Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
  • Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
  • Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
  • First flight of the Douglas DC-3.