Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 44 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 532Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
- 1055Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1158Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
- 1569First recorded lottery in England.
- 1571Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
- A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
- In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
- Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
- American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
- William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
- The Michigan Territory is created.
- Alabama secedes from the United States.
- American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
- American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
- SS London, an English steamship which sank in the Bay of Biscay
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- The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
- Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
- The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
- Romania reincorporates Transylvania.
- First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
- Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
- Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
- World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
- Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
- Greek Civil War: Last day of the Dekemvriana clashes in Athens, Greece.
- Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People’s Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
- The first “networked” television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
