Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 43 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 217 BCBattle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
- 168 BCBattle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
- 813Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.
- 1527Fatahillah chased away Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa harbour, and peoples celebrated it as birthday of Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
- Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
- The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
- The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
- A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
- In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
- War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
- The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
- Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
- US Congress created the United States Department of Justice
- The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet’s commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
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- British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
- Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
- The flag of Sweden is adopted.
- The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
- George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
- Herrin Massacre: Nineteen strikebreakers and three union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
- France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
- Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
- The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
- Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
- Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress
- Opening day of the Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
- The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
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