Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 46 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 421Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
- 708Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.
- 717Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
- 1199Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
- 1306Robert the Bruce becomes king of Scotland.
- 1409The Council of Pisa opens.
- 1555The city of Valencia is founded in present-day Venezuela.
- Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
- The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
- Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
- The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
- The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
- (Julian calendar) Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821. The date was chosen in the early years of the Greek state so that it falls on the day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, strengthening the ties between the Greek Orthodox Church and the newly founded state.
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- American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
- Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
- In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- Aris is founded in Thessaloniki.
- The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
- The Belarusian People’s Republic is established.
- On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
- The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
- The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
- An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
- The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
- United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on obscenity grounds.
- The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
- Canada’s Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
