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A Daily Dose of History (05 May 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.
Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
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A Daily Dose of History (04 May 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism.
Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
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A Daily Dose of History (03 May 2024)
Today's historical events:
Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.
The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort Caroline, a French force has burned the San Mateo fort and massacred hundreds of Spaniards.
Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war.
A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy.
The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government.
Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
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A Daily Dose of History (02 May 2024)
Today's historical events:
King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch of Ethiopia, arrives at Beilul from Goa.
King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
The Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ends with both sides claiming victory after Mexican rebels under José María Morelos y Pavón abandon the city after 72 days under siege by royalist Spanish troops under Félix María Calleja.
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A Daily Dose of History (01 May 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
Norman mercenaries land at Bannow Bay in Leinster, marking the beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland.
Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton, England recognises Scotland as an independent state.
The Act of Union joining England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain takes effect.
Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
The Slave Trade Act 1807 takes effect, abolishing the slave trade within the British Empire.
Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators, who plotted to kill the British Cabinet and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.
The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
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A Daily Dose of History (30 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. He is named admiral of the ocean sea, viceroy and governor of any territory he discovers.
Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.
Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
The comedy about an expedition of soldiers is very first theatrical performance in North America, staged near El Paso for Spanish colonists.
Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
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A Daily Dose of History (29 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.[citation needed]
Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Västerås.
French king Louis XIII names Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of France.
French forces commence the siege of Quebec which is held by the British.
James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
The galaxy Centaurus A or NGC 5128 is discovered by James Dunlop.
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A Daily Dose of History (28 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.
Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.
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A Daily Dose of History (27 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi seaculares.
Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapulapu.
Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world
Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.
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A Daily Dose of History (26 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe.
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
The Royal Academy of Arts hosts its first art opening.
Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
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A Daily Dose of History (25 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over the South Caucasus is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.
After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.
Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
Transition from Ming to Qing: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the British Empire.
Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
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A Daily Dose of History (24 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.
The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9000 houses.
Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
The Franck-Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
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A Daily Dose of History (23 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as King of England.
St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches new coastline (Brazil).
The Munich Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria.
Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
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A Daily Dose of History (22 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas.
The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.
The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
Spanish-American War: The USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
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A Daily Dose of History (22 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas.
The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.
The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
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A Daily Dose of History (20 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
The sun dog phenomenon is observed over Stockholm, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740-57).
The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
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A Daily Dose of History (19 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself basileus.
The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are being slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.
The town of Uusikaupunki (Swedish: Nystad, lit. "New Town") was founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa was not born until 1717.
Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
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A Daily Dose of History (18 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance.
The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
"The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
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A Daily Dose of History (17 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan II.
Kaunas Castle falls to the Teutonic Order after a month-long siege.
Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
Trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.
Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in the Americas.
Citizens of Verona begin an unsuccessful eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces.
The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, later becoming the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.
American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
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A Daily Dose of History (16 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish-Roman War.
Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.
The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
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