Events1 - 200 of210
- 180 Six residents of Carthage, North Africa, are executed for being Christian, the earliest recorded instance of Christianity in the region
- 561 John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
- 855 St Leo IV dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope; he will be succeeded by Benedict III
- 1070 Arnulf III the Hapless becomes Earl of Flanders
- 1203 The Siege of Constantinople begins during the Fourth Crusade, as Roman Catholic Crusaders, aboard a Venetian fleet, attack the city
- 1245 Pope bans Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
- 1296 Illuminated Hebrew Bible, the "Rothschild Pentateuch", signed and completed by scribes Elijah ben Meshullam and Elijah ben Jehiel (now in the Getty Museum)[1]
- 1393 Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
- 1429 Dauphin crowned King Charles VII of France (despite having been king since 1422)
- 1453 Battle of Castillon: French army beats English force under John Talbot, turning point of the Hundred Years' War
Conquest of Nijmegen
1473Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, conquers city of Nijmegen
Martin Luther becomes a Monk
1505Martin Luther enters a Augustinian monastery at Erfurt
Babington Plot
1585 English secret service discovers Anthony Babington's plot to murder plotQueen Elizabeth I
- 1596 At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya (Artic Ocean)
Walter Raleigh Arrested
1603 English explorerWalter Raleigh is arrested by forces ofKing James I of England
Water Music
1717George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" premieres repeatedly on a barge cruising the River Thames in London
Tsarina Catherine II
1762 EmpressCatherine II becomes Tsarina of Russia following the murder ofTsar Peter III
Cook Arrives in Vanuatu
1774 CaptainJames Cook arrives in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Champ de Mars Massacre
1791 Members of the French National Guard under command of General Lafayette open fire on crowd of radical Jacobins at Champ de Mars, Paris, during theFrench Revolution, killing up to 50 people
- 1794 Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
A Voyage to Terra Australis
1814Matthew Flinders publishes "A Voyage to Terra Australis", detailing his circumnavigation of Australia, first to name the continent Australia. He dies a day later.[1]
The Raft of the Medusa
1816 "L'Argus" accidentally discovers raft holding survivors from wrecked French frigate "Méduse." After 13 days at sea only 15 of 151 remain, the rest having been cannibalised, murdered, or committed suicide. This event was made famous byThéodore Géricault’s painting "The Raft of the Medusa"
- 1841 British humorous and satirical magazine "Punch" first published; it finally closed in 2002
- 1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
- 1856 The Great Train Wreck of 1856 between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills over 60 people
- 1858 Recovery of the bell of HMS Lutine from ship's wreck, hung from rostrum in Lloyd's of London's Underwriting Room
- 1861 At Manassas, Virginia General Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, General Johnston is ordered to Manassas
- 1861 US Congress authorizes paper money
Morgan's Raid
1862John Hunt Morgan's confederate cavalry raid reaches Cynthiana, Kentucky
- 1862 Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River Mississippi: USS Potomac Expedition
- 1862 United army officially divides corps
- 1862 US army authorized to accept African-Americans as laborers
- 1863 Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
- 1863 Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
- 1864 CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
- 1866 Italian fleet under Admiral Count Carlo Pellion di Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa
- 1867 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
- 1878 Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott ceding sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government, Southern Africa
- 1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
Rhodes Becomes Premier
1890Cecil Rhodes becomes Premier of Cape Colony
Spain Declares War Against the United States
1898 Spanish–American War: Spaniards surrender to US forces at Santiago de Cuba
Sports History
1900 NY GiantChristy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas
- 1902 Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia
- 1902 Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
- 1903 The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government
Armand Fallieres President
1906 Armand Fallieres is elected President of France, but power lies withGeorges Clémenceau
Royal Family Changes its Name
1917 Royal Proclamation by KingGeorge V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
- 1918 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
Royal Romanov Family Executed
1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia
Speaker Reaches 3000
1925Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
Nurmi Walks World Record
1926Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
- 1935 Variety magazine publishes the famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
Hubbell Begins Winning Streak
1936 NY Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcherCarl Hubbell begins MLB record 24 game winning streak, beating Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-0 at Forbes Field
Spanish Civil War Begins
1936 Spanish generalsFrancisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
- 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan leaves NY flying for LA, winds up in Ireland supposedly by mistake
DiMaggio's Streak Ends
1941 NY YankeeJoe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
- 1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
- 1942 Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record); flooding kills 15
- 1942 Transport #6 departs Pithiviers, France with 928 French Jews sent to Aushwitz Concentration camp; 45 survive until the war's end
- 1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
- 1944 Soviet troops cross Bug River and march into Poland
- 1944 WWII: Port Chicago Disaster - explosion during munition loading kills 322 and, injures nearly 400, destroys three ships and a pier at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California; conditions inspire the Port Chicago Mutiny later that summer[1]
Potsdam Conference
1945 LeadersHarry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold their first post World War II meeting at the Potsdam Conference
- 1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth
- 1948 Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea
The Berlin Candy Bombers
1948 US Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen encounters children in at Templehof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, giving him the idea to drop candy in 'Operation Little Vittles'
Ghavam Sultaneh Premier
1952 Shah of PersiaMohammad Reza Pahlavi names Ghavam Sultaneh premier
- 1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
- 1954 Construction of Disneyland commences in Anaheim, California
- 1954 Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
- 1955 Arco, Idaho, becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
- 1955 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
High Society
1956 MGM releases film "High Society", a musical re-working of "The Philadelphia Story" set in Newport, Rhode Island; starringBing Crosby,Grace Kelly, andFrank Sinatra, with songs byCole Porter
- 1958 King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation
Five Finger Exercise
1958Peter Shaffer's musical "Five Finger Exercise" premieres in London
- 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
North by Northwest
1959 "North by Northwest" directed byAlfred Hitchcock and starringCary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles
- 1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
Scientific Discovery
1959 PaleoanthropologistMary Leakey discovers partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago
- 1959 River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
- 1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
- 1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of "Today Show"
- 1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
- 1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
- 1962 Senate rejects medicare for aged
- 1962 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
Sports History
1963Dave DeBusschere hits a single off Bennie Daniels, his 1st and only MLB hit
- 1963 Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
Event of Interest
1964 ANC leaderNelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
- 1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
- 1964 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- 1965 WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (ABC) begins
- 1966 Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
- 1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
- 1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour, after playing 7 of a planned 29 shows
- 1967 Race riots in Cairo, Illinois
- 1968 Bloodless coup in Iraq led by General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
- 1968 The Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
- 1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
- 1972 First two women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
- 1973 Military coup in Afghanistan, led by former prime minister, and cousin to the king, Mohammad Daoud Khan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah remains in Italy were he was receiving medical treatment at the time
- 1974 Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
- 1974 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll
Music History
1974John Lennon is (again) ordered to leave US in 60 days, due to a 1968 marijuana charge in the UK (he doesn't)
- 1974 The Moody Blues open 1st quadrophonic recording studio in UK
- 1975 Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; attack the first major breach of a February truce
- 1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa
Sports History
1976Walter Alston becomes the fifth MLB manager to win 2,000 games as Los Angeles Dodgers defeat visiting Chicago Cubs, 5-2
Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin Clash
1978 NY Yankee managerBilly Martin andReggie Jackson fight in dug out after Jackson refuses to bunt, causing Martin to suspend him
Anastasio Somoza Debayle Flees
1979 Nicaraguan dictatorAnastasio Somoza Debayle flees to Miami
Sebastian Coe's Record Mile
1979Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
- 1979 Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament
- 1980 Bolivian military coup; General Garcia Meza becomes president
Reagan Accepts Nomination
1980Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for US president
- 1980 Zenko Suzuki becomes Premier of Japan
- 1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23-year-old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
- 1981 Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another
- 1981 Humber Estuary Bridge in UK opens, world's longest span (1.4 km)
- 1981 Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
- 1981 Lobby walkways at Kansas City's Hyatt Regency hotel collapse killing 114 and injuring over 200
- 1981 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1983 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22)
- 1984 Pierre Mauroy resigns as Prime Minister of France
- 1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
- 1984 US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving federal highway funds
- 1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
- 1987 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
- 1987 Iran and France break diplomatic relations
Baseball Record
1987 New York YankeesDon Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
- 1988 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute
Sports History
1988Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49)
- 1988 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C)
- 1989 1st test flight of US stealth bomber
This One
1989Paul McCartney releases single "This One", from his album "Flowers In The Dirt"
- 1989 Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
- 1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
- 1990 Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
Baseball Record
1990 NY YankeeDeion Sanders hits an inside park homer
Pro Wrestling
1994Hulk Hogan beatsRic Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
Bill Gates Recognized as World's Richest Man
1995 Forbes Magazine announcesBill Gates is the richest man in world with a net worth of $12.9 billion dollars
Music History
1995 Singer-songwriterCarole King's 1971 album "Tapestry" is certified as Diamond for sales of 10 million units in the US
The Mask of Zorro
1998 "The Mask of Zorro" directed by Martin Campbell, starringAntonio Banderas,Catherine Zeta-Jones andAnthony Hopkins is released
Nicholas II and Family Buried
1998 Russia buries TsarNicholas II and family, 80 years after they died
Born to Do It
2001Craig David releases “Born to Do It” in the United States
- 2004 Former South African PresidentNelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against AIDS
ESPY Awards
2005 13th ESPY Awards:Lance Armstrong,Annika Sörenstam win
FIFA Women's World Cup Final
2011FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, Germany: Japan beats US, 3-1 on penalties; 2-2 after extra time
- 2012 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
ESPY Awards
2013 21st ESPY Awards:LeBron James,Serena Williams win
- 2013 58 people are killed in floods in Sichuan Province, China
- 2013 7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria
- 2014 5 hour humanitarian ceasefire, proposed by the UN, takes place between Israel and Hamas
- 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
- 2015 Scientists solve mystery of sleeping sickness in two villages in northern Kazakhstan - uranium mining had caused increase in carbon monoxide
- 2015 Suicide bomber in Khan Bani Saad, Iraq, kills 120, ISIS claims responsibility
Le Corbusier Recognized by UNESCO
2016 17 works by Swiss architectLe Corbusier included in UNESCO World Heritage sites list as "an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement"
Obama Honors Mandela
2018Barack Obama gives speech honoringNelson Mandela and warning of "strongman politics" in Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2018 Bloomberg estimates NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8.1 billion to the league's 32 teams, $255m each
- 2018 Oldest evidence of bread, made from wild grains, discovered by archaeologists in 14,000 year-old dig in the Black Desert, Jordon
- 2019 Bulgaria announces 5 million people, virtually every adult, has had their personal information exposed after national tax agency hacked
- 2019 Irrigation canal system collapses near Fort Laramie, Wyoming parching 100,000 acres of farmland across Nebraska and Wyoming
