Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 51 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 534 BCThespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
- 1174Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
- 1248Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
- 1499Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
- 1510First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
- 1531The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
- John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
- The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
- French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela.
- Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.
- American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
- The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
- Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
- The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
- King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
🎬 Lights, camera, action! #AktoApp is now live on Google Play Store, ready to elevate your Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts creations. 🚀🎞️ Download now for FREE and start creating magic ✨ (Sponsored)
- Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
- Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
- Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Edwin Hubble’s scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper.citation needed date=November 2014
- An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
- World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships German battleship Scharnhorst and German battleship Gneisenau.
- World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
- World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
- World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
- French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War.
- The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
- French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for “Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals”.
- The BBC broadcasts “An Unearthly Child” (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the science-fiction television serial of the same name and the first episode of Doctor Who, which is now the world’s longest running science fiction drama.
- Representatives of the People’s Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
