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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- 1010Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.
- 1126Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
- 1576Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
- Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
- John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
- Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
- Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
- The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
- Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
- An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America”, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
- Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
- Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
- War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
- The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
- King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
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- American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
- French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.
- International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
- First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
- World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
- International Women’s Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
- The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
- The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
- Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- The Castle Gate Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
- Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
- Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
- World War II: Dutch forces surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
- Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the 228 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
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