Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 671Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
- 1190Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
- 1329The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1523Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
- 1539Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
- Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
- Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
- Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
- Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”.
- Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
- A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
- The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
- French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
- First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
- The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
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- Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
- The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
- American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
- American Civil War: Battle of Brice’s Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
- Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
- League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
- Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for 3 months creating a large, 17 km long fissure across the mountain peak.
- Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
- The Villisca axe murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa.
- An Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire led by Lawrence of Arabia breaks out.
- The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
- Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
- Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
- Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
