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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- 226Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
- 1149Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
- 1194Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1444Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
- 1534Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground.
- Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
- At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
- First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
- Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco.
- Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
- Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled “Who’s to Blame?” in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
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- France annexes Tahiti.
- In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
- George Edward Gouraud records Handel’s Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
- Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
- Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
- The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
- The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge “freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes”.
- Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
- First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable-pitch propeller.
- The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
- Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
- The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
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