Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 38 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 474Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1555Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
- Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
- The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
- American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
- The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
- After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
- New Roman Republic established
- American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
- US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
- US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
- William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
- The Davis Cup competition is established.
- Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
- A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
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- Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
- Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- The Balkan Entente is formed.
- World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
- Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
- World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
- World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
- World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
- Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
- Korean War: Geochang massacre
- The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
- The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a “record-busting” audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
- Vietnam War: The first United States troops with a combat mission, a Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion, are sent to South Vietnam.
- First test flight of the Boeing 747.
- The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
