Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 814Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire.
- 1077Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
- 1393King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers’ costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
- 1521The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
- 1547Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
- 1573Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
- Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
- The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
- The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
- Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
- Pownal, Vermont, is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
- Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
- A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
- Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
- The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
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- Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
- A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
- Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
- Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
- In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world’s largest snowflakes are reported, 15 in wide and 8 in thick.
- Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph, thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph.
- The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
- Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
- United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
- An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
- Municipally-owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
- Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
- Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city’s greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
- Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
- The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
