Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 56 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 481Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
- 1327Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
- 1329King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders
- 1411The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
- The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
- The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan’s order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
- French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
- Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
- Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
- American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
- President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the “Molly Maguires”, to disband.
- The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
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- Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
- Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
- King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon.
- Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
- World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
- World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls–Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
- Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
- Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.
- The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
- North Sea flood of 1953 (Dutch, Watersnoodramp, literally “flood disaster”) was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
- Felix Wankel’s first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
- Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”
- The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
