Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 48 BCBattle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
- 138Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
- 645Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
- 988The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
- 1086King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
- 1212The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1460Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king’s Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
- 1499The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
- 1519Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty’s Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
- 1553Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
- William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
- English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
- American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
- The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
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- The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
- U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor’s death.
- Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
- The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
- Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F, the highest recorded in the United States.
- Belfast’s Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
- World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
- World War II: Battle of Britain: The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
- Jedwabne pogrom: The massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
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