Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 48 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 752Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico assumes the throne.
- 1481The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
- 1491Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
- A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy.
- The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
- Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
- Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
- Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
- The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It’s the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
- The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
- The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
- American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
- Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- The Hudson’s Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
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- Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
- The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
- Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
- The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
- A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
- West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
- Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
- Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
- World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
- World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
- New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
- London’s Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
- The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.