Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 9Arminius’ alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
- 337Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
- 533A Byzantine army of 15,000 men under Belisarius lands at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia) and marches to Carthage.
- 1000Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
- 1087William Rufus becomes King of England, taking the title William II, (reigned until 1100).
- 1141Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara Khitai, defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan.
- 1379Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1488Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France.
- 1493Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1513James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland’s involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1543Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1561The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
- Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
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- Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
- John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
- Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
- American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
- World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- Piggly Wiggly, the first true self-service grocery store, is founded in Memphis, Tennessee.
- The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- In the United States the National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against Salazar dictatorship’s support of General Franco’s coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
