Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 60 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 4004 BCThe world was created at approximately six o'clock in the evening, according to the Ussher chronology.
- 362The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
- 451The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
- 794Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
- 1383The 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
- 1575Foundation of Aguascalientes.
- Battle of Liaoluo Bay: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
- Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
- Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
- The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
- American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
- Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
- Warriors of the Miami people under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
- André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
- Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
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- The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
- Spain declares war on Morocco.
- A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
- First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
- The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
- The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
- Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
- The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust.
- Greenwich, in London, England, is adopted as Universal Time meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
- In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 m of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 m to the road below.
- Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
- Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
- The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
- Toastmasters International is founded.
- J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death.
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