Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 50 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 537Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
- 630Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
- 717Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
- 1152Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
- 1188Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
- 1413Henry V becomes King of England.
- 1556In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
- A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
- With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
- The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
- Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
- Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
- Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
- The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
- An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
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- Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech.
- Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
- Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
- Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
- The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
- The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
- The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
- Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
- Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
- Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
- Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, meaning “Land of the Aryans”.
- Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
- Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
- World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
