Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 45 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 506The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
- 1419John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
- 1509An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Constantinople.
- 1515Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1547The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
- 1561Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
- 1570Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
- John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
- The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
- Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- India’s first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded.
- First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London’s (England) Wembley Stadium
- Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy’s first loss.
- World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
- World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
- World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
- While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her “to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them”. She would become known as Mother Teresa.
- The television series Gunsmoke premieres on CBS . It was the second western television series written for adults. The first was the Lone Ranger.
- At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
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