Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 62 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 657First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
- 811Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
- 920Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
- 1309Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
- 1469Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.
- 1509The Emperor Krishnadevaraya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
- 1581Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): The northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
- The first recorded women’s cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
- French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
- The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
- New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
- The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom.
- José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
- First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
- Liberia declares its independence.
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- American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
- American Civil War: Morgan’s Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
- Premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
- The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
- Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
- In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman’s resignation.
- France annexes Tahiti.
- Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
- United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
- Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
- The Axis powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
- King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the thrоne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
- End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
- World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
- World War II: The Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
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