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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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  • 193
    The Roman emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
  • 1215
    Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
  • 1252
    Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
  • 1298
    Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
  • 1495
    A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
  • 1533
    Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
  • 1535
    Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
  • The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
  • Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
  • Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
  • The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
  • Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
  • Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
  • The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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  • Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
  • War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
  • James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”
  • Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
  • James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the Magnetic North Pole.
  • The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
  • Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
  • American Civil War: Battle of Fairfax Court House: The first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.
  • American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
  • The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
  • Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
  • Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
  • Robert Falcon Scott’s second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
  • The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.