Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 43 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 235Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
- 673Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
- 1206Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
- The Dutch East India Company is established.
- Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
- The Great Boston Fire of 1760, destroys 349 buildings.
- After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.
- Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
- The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
- An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
- The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
- The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
- Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
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- Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
- The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso’s first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
- Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida’s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
- World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: “I came out of Bataan and I shall return”.
- With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
- Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
- The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
- Tunisia gains independence from France.
- The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
- The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
- An unsuccessful attempt is made by a lone perpetrator to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
- The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
- Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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