Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 47 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 3340 BCEarliest believed record of an eclipse.
- The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
- King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
- American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
- The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
- In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
- The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.
- Ground is broken at Allanburg, Ontario, for the building of the first Welland Canal.
- First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
- Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
- American Civil War: Battle of Franklin – The Confederate Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee, with Hood losing six generals and almost a third of his troops.
- A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in Stockholm’s Kungsträdgården.
- The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
- American Old West: Kid Curry Logan, second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
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- A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154.
- Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
- The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph.
- In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
- Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
- Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
- 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
- Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
- In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap. This is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
- Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
- Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
- Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
