Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 32 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 747 BCEpoch (origin) of Ptolemy’s Nabonassar Era.
- 364Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 1233Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
- 1266Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
- Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
- The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
- Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
- Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
- Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
- HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
- Tokelau annexed by the United Kingdom.
- The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
- President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park.
- President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
- Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
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- Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
- In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
- Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
- Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
- A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
- Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
- Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
- U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
- The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
- Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
- Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
- Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
- Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
- World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
- The United Kingdom’s oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
