Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 51 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 1339The Milanese army and the St. George’s (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago.
- 1472Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
- 1547Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
- René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France’s claim to Texas.
- The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
- Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
- Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon’s forces, is executed.
- Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
- Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
- Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
- Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.
- American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
- End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
- In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
- The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco.
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- Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
- The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
- Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
- The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded.
- The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
- The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
- Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party’s upcoming election campaign.
- Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
- Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America’s first World War II flying ace.
- American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
- The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
- The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
- World War II: The “Big Week” began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
- World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
