Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 567 BCServius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
- 240 BCFirst recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
- 1085Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
- 1420Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
- 1521The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
- Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
- Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
- A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
- United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
- Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin American wars of independence.
- May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
- The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
- The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
- The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
- In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
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- Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
- The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
- The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
- The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
- Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in Tennessee.
- Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
- Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
- World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
- The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
- Public transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
- Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
- The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
- In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
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