Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 44 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 538Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
- 1550Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.
- Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
- The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
- Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
- American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River.
- Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
- Basutoland, toaday called Lesotho is annexed by the United Kingdom.
- Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
- Tonkin Campaign: France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh.
- Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
- Greek cruiser Georgios Averof is launched at Livorno.
- The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
- Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
- Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
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- The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
- İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
- Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan form The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
- Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
- Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his “fireside chats”.
- Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
- Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
- Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
- Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an Allied surrender to the Japanese Empire.
- The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world’s deadliest air disaster at the time.
- First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.
- Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become Acting President of Indonesia.
- Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
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