Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 32 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 161Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
- 238Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
- 321Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
- 1277Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
- 1573A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
- Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
- Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
- Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
- Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
- Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
- American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
- Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the “telephone”.
- The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
- Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war.
- Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
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- Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
- Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
- World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
- Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
- Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
- Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
- Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
- The song “We Are the World” receives its international release.
- Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
- Lieyu Massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
- Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
- The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
- The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
- The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
