Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 138The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
- 493Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.
- 628Khosrau II is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
- 1336Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
- François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu’s orders.
- Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000–1500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain.
- Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issues a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had “the support of a great power” (i.e. Russia).
- Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
- Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
- Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843).
- Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc‘s motion, guarantees workers’rights.
- A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
- Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
- Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
- Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi’s regency.
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- J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
- Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
- Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
- Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
- Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
- Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
- The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
- February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
- World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
- The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
- The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
- The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
- In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
