Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 61 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 47 BCJulius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.
- 17Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
- 451Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire takes place. The Empire defeats the Armenians militarily but guarantees them freedom to openly practice Christianity.
- 946King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine’s Mass Day.
- 1135Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in León Cathedral as Imperator totius Hispaniae, “Emperor of all of Spain”.
- 1293An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
- 1328William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
- 1538Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
- 1573The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.
- Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.
- Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.
- Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
- The Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repelled a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.
- The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
- A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
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- Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan Cathedral, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
- Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.
- One hundred sixteen people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway’s history.
- Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
- The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
- Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
- Montana is organized as a United States territory.
- American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
- Michael Barrett was the last person to be publicly executed in Great Britain
- Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
- Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
- Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
- Thousand Days’ War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
