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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- 308At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.
- 1100Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland.
- 1215The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
- 1500Treaty of Granada – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
- The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
- Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
- Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
- Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
- Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking “Thief-Taker General” (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
- Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
- The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
- Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
- Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
- War of 1812: Battle of Crysler’s Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
- In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
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- The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
- Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
- The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people’s wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
- Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
- Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
- Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
- The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
- Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
- World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is commemorated annually with a two minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919.
- Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
- Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
- The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
- Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
- The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
