Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 456Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats the Roman usurper Avitus near Piacenza (Northern Italy) .
- 1091London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
- 1346Battle of Neville’s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by the English near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
- 1448Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
- 1456The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia).
- 1558Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
- Kepler’s Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
- French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
- Nine regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
- Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
- Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, age 15.
- American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
- American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
- Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
- Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
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- Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
- First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
- Nineteen people are killed in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre, the deadliest massacre of Europeans by aborigines in Australian history.
- Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
- The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
- Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
- Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
- First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
- Haitian rebels attack the barracks of the Gendarmerie of Haiti, igniting the Second Caco War
- RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
- Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
- Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
- The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
- World War II: a German submarine attacks an American ship for the first time in the war.
- German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
