Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 307Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
- 387Siyaj K‘ak’conquers Waka
- 871Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
- 1297François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
- 1454The papal bull Romanus Pontifex is written.
- 1499Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
- Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.
- Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
- George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
- An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
- War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
- The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
- American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
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- African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
- Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’— his punched card calculator.
- The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
- A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
- The African National Congress is founded.
- President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I.
- The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
- World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
- World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.
- Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
- In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle’s policies in Algeria.
- The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.