Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 1218The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
- 1276Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
- 1487The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII’s reign.
- Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
- One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.
- The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
- Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
- The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
- The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
- John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
- The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
- South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”).
- Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
- “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
- The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, and Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland.
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- The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
- Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
- John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
- American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
- The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
- Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
- Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
- World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
- The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
- Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
- The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
- First issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana.
- Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
- Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
- World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
