Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 53 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 532Nika riots in Constantinople.
- 888Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
- 1435Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
- 1547Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
- The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
- French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived in Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
- Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
- French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
- War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
- United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
- The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
- Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
- The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
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- National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
- The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
- U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war’s opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
- Émile Zola’s J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
- The Rhoads Opera House Fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
- An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
- The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union.
- A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
- The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
- Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
- World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
- First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
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