Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 456Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
- 690Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
- 1384Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
- Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
- Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
- George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
- Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
- The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
- The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
- Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
- Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
- Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
- William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
- John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
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- Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
- Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
- The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
- The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
- William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
- In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
- Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
- World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
- Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- Holocaust: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome
- Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, debuts in the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
- The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
- Nuremberg trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
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