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Macbeth's Rise: The Death of King Duncan I (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (14 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.
After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.
War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.
Portuguese Crisis of 1383-85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.
The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788-1790 Russo-Swedish War.
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07:5514/08/2024
Pope John I: Challenges & Legacy (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (13 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him extensive estates in Italy.
Maurice becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
Count Reginar I of Hainault rises against Zwentibold of Lotharingia and slays him near present-day Susteren.
The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-seventh day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Tenbun (天文) era).
Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister.
Sweden and Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro.
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08:5913/08/2024
Victory at Ascalon: First Crusade's Decisive Battle (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (12 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod Republic is signed, regulating the border between the two countries for the first time.
Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
Charles de La Vieuville is arrested and replaced by Cardinal Richelieu as the French king's chief advisor.
Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
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07:2412/08/2024
Roman Dacia: Trajan's Conquest & Legacy (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (11 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
Rodrigo de Borja is elected as Head of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Alexander VI
Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
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08:1811/08/2024
Pope Eugene I: Restoring Unity and Authority (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (10 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I.
Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
Battle of Maldon: The English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.
The Battle of Azaz ends with a humiliating retreat of the Byzantine emperor, Romanos III Argyros, against the Mirdasid rulers of Aleppo. The retreat degenerates into a rout, in which Romanos himself barely escapes capture.
Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum.
The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.
The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.
Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Italian War of 1551-59.
The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
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07:5210/08/2024
Leaning Tower of Pisa: Centuries of Construction (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (09 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.
Sources cite biggest caravan trade between Podvisoki and Republic of Ragusa in 1428. Vlachs committed to Ragusan lord Tomo Bunić, that they will with 600 horses deliver 1500 modius of salt. Delivery was meant for Dobrašin Veseoković, and Vlachs price was half of delivered salt.
Ottoman-Venetian War (1499-1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.
The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
Indian Wars: The Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X.
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
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07:2209/08/2024
Meerssen Treaty: Dividing Frankish Kingdom (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (08 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald partition the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions.
Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
Mudéjar revolt: Muslim rebel forces took the Alcázar of Jerez de la Frontera after defeating the Castilian garrison.
King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Krishnadeva Raya is crowned Emperor of Vijayanagara at Chittoor.
The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.
John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill: English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
Mehmed IV (1648-1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640-1648) as Ottoman Emperor.
Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the king of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.
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09:2508/08/2024
Downfall of Roman Emperor Majorian (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (07 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help.
Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741-1743 Russo-Swedish War.
George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
The United States Department of War is established.
American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
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10:0307/08/2024
Battle of Meloria: Genoa's Naval Triumph (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (06 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire.
Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
Peruvian War of Independence: The Battle of Junín.
The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
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09:5806/08/2024
Guangwu: Restoring the Han Dynasty (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (05 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty.
Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are extinguished.
Roman armies enter Betar, slaughtering thousands and ending the Bar Kokhba revolt.
Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
The last major Danish army to raid England for nearly a century is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians.
The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of León and Abd-ar-Rahman III at Zamora in the context of the Spanish Reconquista. The battle resulted in a victory for the Emirate of Córdoba.
Byzantine-Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
Spanish Reconquista: the forces of the Kingdom of Castile initiate the ultimately futile Siege of Algeciras against the Emirate of Granada.
The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
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08:0605/08/2024
Goguryeo-Sui War: East Asian Conflict (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (04 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
Goguryeo-Sui War: Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo (Korea) during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.
Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham: The army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (Tenmei eruption). The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent Assembly.
A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
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08:4604/08/2024
Roman General Tiberius' Triumph Over Dalmatae (+ 14 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (03 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.
Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.
Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
Frederik van Lotharingen elected as first Belgian Pope Stephen IX.
The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
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11:2303/08/2024
Fall of Majorian: Roman Emperor's Arrest (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (02 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
After a two-years siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III, assuming an important victory in his campaign to subjugate the Central March.
Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.
During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
The first United States Census is conducted.
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj.
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07:5602/08/2024
Batavian Rebellion: Roman vs. Germanic Tribes (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (01 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
Isaac II Angelos, restored Byzantine Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise.
Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender of Famagusta.
Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
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08:2101/08/2024
Mount Fuji's 781 Eruption: A Cultural Turning Point (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (31 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: Sixth day of the seventh month of the first year of the Ten'o (天応) era).
Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
Attempted usurpation by John Komnenos the Fat for the throne of Alexios III Angelos.
Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: The French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
All remaining Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
Russo-Polish War (1654-67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal emperor of India.
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08:2731/07/2024
Founding of Baghdad: Islamic Hub of Learning (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (30 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Baghdad is founded.
First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.
Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
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10:5330/07/2024
Praetorian Guard Seizes Co-Emperors in Rome (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (29 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor, the sixth emperor of the year.
Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
Battle of Firenzuola: Lombard forces under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy at Firenzuola (Tuscany).
Byzantine-Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad: King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen: France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
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10:4529/07/2024
Cromwell's Fall: Tudor Treason & Royal Intrigue (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (28 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines, is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.
In the Eighty Years' War, the Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.
Second Northern War: Battle of Warsaw begins.
on 28 July, the composer, organist and harpsichordist Johann Sebastian Bach dies.
Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy and now a museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, is commissioned.
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09:1328/07/2024
Siward's Victory: Turning Point in Scottish History (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (27 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
Georgian-Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Basian the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire.
According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman state.
Battle of Bapheus: Decisive Ottoman victory over the Byzantines opening up Bithynia for Turkish conquest.
The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. After the Acts of Union 1707, Scotland would be included in the Act.
Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie is a victory for the Jacobites.
A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.
The Great Northern War: The first significant victory of the Russian Navy in the naval battle of Gangut against the Swedish Navy near the Hanko Peninsula.
Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
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10:0527/07/2024
The First Fitna: Battle of Siffin & Islamic Division (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (26 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at the Battle of Valdejunquera.
Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
The Emperor Krishnadevaraya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
Francis Drake, the English explorer, discovers a major bay on the coast of California (San Francisco).
Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): The northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
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08:1926/07/2024
Constantine: Rise of a Roman Emperor (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (25 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day assault on the city walls.
The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux.
Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal.
The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
Henry II of France is crowned.
Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.
Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
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10:1425/07/2024
Battle of Nocera: Roger vs Ranulf in Southern Italy (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (24 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.
Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her one-year-old son James VI.
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
Afro-Chileans are emancipated.
In Maracaibo, Venezuela, the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
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10:3924/07/2024
Byzantine Triumph: Pliska's Treasury Capture (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (23 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
Scanian War: Denmark-Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Asia Minor's coasts.
In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
Pressed by expanding immigration, Canada closes its doors to paupers and criminals.
The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
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11:0723/07/2024
Anzen 838: Byzantine-Abbasid Battle (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (22 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War.
Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
The Dutch city of Groningen defended by the Spanish and besieged by a Dutch and English army under Maurice of Orange, capitulates.
William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
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10:1422/07/2024
Pope Pontian: Challenges and Triumphs in 3rd Century (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (21 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
The 365 Crete earthquake affected the Greek island of Crete with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing a destructive tsunami that affects the coasts of Libya and Egypt, especially Alexandria. Many thousands were killed.
King Berengar I of Italy and a hired Hungarian army defeats the Frankish forces at Verona. King Louis III is captured and blinded for breaking his oath (see 902).
Battle of Taillebourg: Louis IX of France puts an end to the revolt of his vassals Henry III of England and Hugh X of Lusignan.
Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
The Raid on Málaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
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08:5021/07/2024
Siege of Jerusalem: Roman Conquest & Temple's Fall (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (20 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae.
Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy.
Treaty of San Germano is signed at San Germano between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX. A Dominican named Guala is responsible for the negotiations.
The Battle of Kellistown was fought on this day between the forces of the English led by Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March against the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles under the command of Art Óg mac Murchadha Caomhánach, the most powerful Chieftain in Leinster.
Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara: Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it.
A fire in Oulu, Finland almost completely destroyed the fourth district, which covered the southern part of the city and was by far the largest of the city districts.
Seventh Ottoman-Venetian War: The Ottoman Empire captures Nauplia, the capital of the Republic of Venice's "Kingdom of the Morea", thereby opening the way to the swift Ottoman reconquest of the Morea.
Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.
Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
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10:0620/07/2024
Rome's Great Fire: Nero's Legacy (+ 14 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (19 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
Battle of Simancas: King Ramiro II of León defeats the Moorish army under Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III near the city of Simancas.
Arab-Byzantine wars: Battle of Apamea: Fatimids defeat a Byzantine army near Apamea.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill: The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
Italian War of 1542-46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins.
The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
The attempt to install Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England collapses after only nine days.
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai.
Coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom.
The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
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11:2119/07/2024
Julian's Arrival: Roman-Persian Wars (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (18 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Roman-Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.
Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo-Tang War.
Battle of Alarcos: Almohad forces defeat the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII and force its retreat to Toledo.
King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War.
Tokhtamysh-Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
In Brussels, Prince Charles I is crowned Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders, a year after inheriting the title.
The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.
Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
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10:0218/07/2024
Early Christian Martyrs in North Africa (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (17 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.
The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.
Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc.
Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the United States.
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09:1217/07/2024
Spercheios 997: Byzantine Victory & Bulgarian Defeat (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (16 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an Papal bull (of doubtful validity) of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East-West Schism.
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: After Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
The canonization of Saint Francis of Assisi
The Spanish town of Arjona declares independence and names its native Muhammad ibn Yusuf as ruler. This marks the Muhammad's first rise to prominence; he would later establish the Nasrid Emirate of Granada, the last independent Muslim state in Spain.
Celebrated by the Carmelite Order-but doubted by modern historians-as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
King Richard II of England is crowned.
Jacques Cartier, navigator and explorer, returns home to St. Malo after claiming Stadacona (Quebec), Hochelaga (Montereal) and the River of Canada (St. Lawrence River) region for France.
The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
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07:3716/07/2024
Siege of Jerusalem: The Great Jewish Revolt (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (15 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
First Jewish-Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, was inaugurated in Turku.
Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
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09:5915/07/2024
Battle of Cape Colonna: Otto II vs al-Qasim (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (14 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
King Otto II and his Frankish army were defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy.
Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II.
Battle of Vítkov Hill, decisive victory of Czech Hussite forces commanded by Jan Žižka against Crusade army led by Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor.
Anglo-Spanish War: English and Dutch troops sack the Spanish city of Cádiz before leaving the next day.
An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá leaves its base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution. Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France.
Inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation.
The Sedition Act of 1798 becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
The Finnish War: the Battle of Lapua was fought.
Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
The first ascent of the Matterhorn is completed by Edward Whymper and his party, four of whom die on the descent.
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09:1414/07/2024
Capture of William I: Medieval Power Dynamics (+ 14 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (13 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
Anglo-Spanish War: A convoy of English ships from the Levant Company manage to repel a fleet of eleven Spanish and Maltese galleys off the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria.
English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
The Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria begins.
The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.
In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
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11:4713/07/2024
Siege of Jerusalem: Fall of Second Temple (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (12 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.
King Constantine II of Scotland, King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred of Bamburgh and King Owain of the Cumbrians accepted the overlordship of King Æthelstan of England, leading to seven years of peace in the north.
Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
The Ottomans capture Euboea.
Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
Lê Cung Hoàng ceded the throne to Mạc Đăng Dung, ending the Lê dynasty and starting the Mạc dynasty.
King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred idols and books of the Maya.
Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal.
The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar): The decisive victory of William III of England's forces in Ireland.
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08:3712/07/2024
Anthemius: Betrayal & Fall of Western Rome (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (11 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).
Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.
Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.
Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Ottoman capital, Edirne.
Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland".
Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
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10:4511/07/2024
Emperor Hadrian: Legacy of Travel and Architecture (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (10 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Emperor Hadrian dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
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07:2310/07/2024
Emperor Hadrian: Reign of Strength and Splendor (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (09 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Hadrian, who became emperor a year ago on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affected the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.
Korean forces under general Kim Yu-sin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje in the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.
The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer in Fustat in the name of Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, thereby symbolically completing the Fatimid conquest of Egypt.
Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Duchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
Timur attacks the Jalairid Sultanate and destroys Baghdad.
King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller Habsburg force under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Battle of Carpi.
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10:0309/07/2024
Siege of Jerusalem: First Crusade's Bloody Conquest (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (08 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta.
Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.
Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe.
The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway.
French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
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08:0008/07/2024
Spanish Conquistadors Triumph at Battle of Otumba (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (07 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
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07:2107/07/2024
Heliopolis 640 AD: Islamic Conquest Turning Point (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (06 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt).
Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming-Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
Jan Hus is condemned by the assembly of the council in the Konstanz Cathedral as a heretic and sentenced to be burned at the stake. (See Deaths section.)
A temporary compromise between the rebellious Transylvanian peasants and the noblemen is signed in Kolozsmonostor Abbey.
Richard III is crowned King of England.
Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo: Charles VIII defeats the Holy League.
Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.
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08:1706/07/2024
Constantine's Bridge: Roman Engineering Triumph (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (05 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius.
The Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada.
Portuguese forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begin an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy during the Campaign of Danture in Sri Lanka.
John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
The Convention of Artlenburg is signed, leading to the French occupation of the Electorate of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
In Buenos Aires the local militias repel the British soldiers within the Second English Invasion.
The Battle of Wagram between the French and Austrian Empires begins.
The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence is adopted by a congress of the provinces.
War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York commence.
War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa: American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
Lê Văn Khôi along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the Phiên An citadel, developing into the Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng.
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10:4705/07/2024
Pactum Sicardi: Medieval Peace Treaty in Italy (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (04 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint.
A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
Ottoman-Hungarian wars: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins.
The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
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07:1504/07/2024
Constantine's Triumph: Battle of Adrianople 324 AD (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (03 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
Governor-General Peter von Scholten emancipates all remaining slaves in the Danish West Indies.
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08:1603/07/2024
Legacy of Galla Placidia in Roman Politics (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (02 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an.
Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army.
King Henry the Fowler dies in his royal palace in Memleben. He is succeeded by his son Otto I, who becomes the ruler of East Francia.
The Byzantine army proclaims Nikephoros II Phokas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.
Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
Menas, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
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09:3302/07/2024
Roman General's Role in Flavian Dynasty Transition (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (01 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.
Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.
Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).
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08:1501/07/2024
Pope Marcellinus: Unity Amid Turmoil (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (30 Jun 2024)
Today's historical events:
Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery.
The Spanish held Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico having been besieged for fifteen days, surrenders to an English force under Sir George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland.
The University of Tartu was founded.
The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia.
Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
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09:0930/06/2024
Legacy of Cao Rui: Wei's Prosperous Reign (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (29 Jun 2024)
Today's historical events:
Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war.
Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire
Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.
English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.
Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
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09:2429/06/2024
Crusaders Triumph: Battle of Antioch 1098 (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (28 Jun 2024)
Today's historical events:
Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.
Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.
Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).
American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
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07:3828/06/2024
Ragusa: Rise of a Maritime Power (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (27 Jun 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coast south of Cape Cassipore.
The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.
Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign.
The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
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08:5927/06/2024
Elagabalus Adopts Alexander Severus: Roman Succession Drama (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (26 Jun 2024)
Today's historical events:
Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire.
Pope Benedict II is chosen.
En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
Richard III becomes King of England.
Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
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10:1026/06/2024