Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 613Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
- 1506The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
- 1517The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
- 1521Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms
- 1555The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma.
- The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.
- The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
- Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
- The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
- Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
- Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana: Zulu troops decisively defeat British troops.
- Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke’s Drift: One hundred thirty-nine British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an onslaught by three to four thousand Zulu warriors.
- Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
- The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
- Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
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- Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
- Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
- SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
- Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
- World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for “peace without victory” in Europe.
- Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
- Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
- World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
- World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
- In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people’s Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh is the prime minister.
- Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
- Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
- The New York City “Mad Bomber”, George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
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