Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 639Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Daizong at Jiucheng Palace.
- 715Pope Gregory II is elected.
- 1051Henry I of France is married to Anne of Kiev.
- 1445John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
- 1499Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
- 1535French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona’s two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
- 1536Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
- 1542The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma.
- 1568Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Thirty Years’ War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
- An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
- The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
- Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
- King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
- American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
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- New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
- Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
- U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
- Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
- Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
- Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
- Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
- the Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
- The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
- The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established.
- Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
- The Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bằng Province, Vietnam.
- World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
- World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings (“D-Day”). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
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