Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 34 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 1258Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
- 1306In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence
- 1355The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
- 1567Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
- French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
- Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
- Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
- Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
- American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
- The YWCA is founded in New York City.
- HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
- Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
- Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
- Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina
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- In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
- Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
- Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
- The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
- The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for “Chattanooga Choo Choo”.
- World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
- Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
- United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- Roy Lichtenstein’s first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
- Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
- The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel–casino kills eight and injures 198.
- Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
- The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
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