Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 768Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
- 1238James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
- 1264The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez, which had been under Muslim occupation since 711.
- 1410The first mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
- 1446The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
- 1514Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
- 1582Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- The army of the Portuguese Empire is annihilated by the Kingdom of Kandy on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
- The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
- Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
- The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
- Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
- Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
- Seven Years’ War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
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- The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
- Sinking of HMS Lutine with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
- Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
- Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
- War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
- Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
- Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
- Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
- Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
- American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
- American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook: Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.
- A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
- General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Bern.
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