Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 60 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 1500Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
- 1531Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake—thousands die.
- 1564The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
- 1564The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
- 1565Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
- Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
- Treaty of Karlowitz is signed.
- The magnitude 9 Cascadia earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
- Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
- The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day.
- Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
- Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
- Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
- The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
- Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
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- First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
- American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
- American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
- American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from the Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
- American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
- Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
- The world’s largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3106.75 carat, is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
- The Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
- Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
- Richard Strauss’ opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
- Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers’ Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
- Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
- Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
- The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (“Complete Independence”) which occurred 17 years later.
