Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 303Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
- 532Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
- 1455Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
- 1554Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueñu in Chile.
- Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
- American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
- Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
- Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia (now part of Romania).
- Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
- Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
- President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
- Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
- Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
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- Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
- The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
- The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing “J'accuse”, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
- Second Boer War: Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart’s Hill.
- Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
- Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world’s first service club.
- The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
- First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
- Last monarch of Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide.
- U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
- German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
- Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
- World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
