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The following events took place on October 12. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 61 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 539 BC

  The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
• 633

  Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
• 1113

  The city of Oradea is first mentioned under the Latin name Varadinum (“vár” means fortress in Hungarian).
• 1216

  John, King of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge.
• 1279

  Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, is said to have inscribed the Dai-Gohonzon.
• 1398

  The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
• 1492

  Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.
• 1582

  Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1654

  The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
• 1692

  The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
• 1748

  British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
• 1773

  America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia.
• 1792

  First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York City.
• 1793

  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.
• 1799

  Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
• 1810

  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.
• 1822

  Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Empire of Brazil.
• 1823

  Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
• 1847

  German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG, the largest engineering company in Europe.
• 1871

  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.
• 1890

  Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
• 1892

  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.
• 1901

  President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
• 1915

  World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
• 1917

  World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
• 1918

  A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
• 1928

  An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston.
• 1933

  The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
• 1942

  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.
• 1944

  World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.

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