Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 46 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 1462Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
- 1497Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
- 1565Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
- 1579Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
- The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
- Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
- French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
- Cúcuta, Colombia, is discovered by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
- American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
- In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
- The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic.
- In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
- The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
- American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
- American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
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- American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
- American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
- The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
- Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
- The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
- Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
- Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
- The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand’s worst natural disaster.
- U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
- Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
- Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
- World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain’s worst maritime disaster.
- World War II: The British Army’s 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
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