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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- 539 BCThe army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
- 633Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
- 1113The city of Oradea is first mentioned under the Latin name Varadinum (“vár” means fortress in Hungarian).
- 1216John, King of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge.
- 1279Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, is said to have inscribed the Dai-Gohonzon.
- 1398The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
- 1492Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.
- 1582Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
- The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
- British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
- America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia.
- First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York City.
- The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
- Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
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- First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
- Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Empire of Brazil.
- Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
- German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG, the largest engineering company in Europe.
- Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
- Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
- The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage.
- President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
- World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
- World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
- A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
- An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston.
- The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
- World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
- World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
