1155 – Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned emperor of Rome. 1429 – French forces defeated the English at the battle of Patay. The English had…
1155 – Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned emperor of Rome. 1429 – French forces defeated the English at the battle of Patay. The English had…
1764 – Gov Winthrop Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire 1839 – Charles Darwin elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1857 – The University…
1793 – Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty, dividing Poland. 1793 – Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his…
69 – The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors. 1124 – Pope Honorius II is…
1298 – An army under Albert of Austria defeated and killed Adolf of Nassua near Worms, Germany. 1625 – The Spanish army took Breda, Spain,…
0362 – Emperor Julian issued an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria. 1789 – The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly,…
0455 – Rome was sacked by the Vandal army. 1487 – The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke. 1567 – Mary,…
1215 – King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta. 1381 – The English peasant revolt was crushed in London. 1389 –…
1775 – The Continental Army was founded by the Second Continental Congress for purposes of common defense. This event is considered to be the birth…
1415 – Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa. 1777 – The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American…
1442 – Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples. 1665 – England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former…
1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of…
1776 – The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence. 1801 – The North African State of Tripoli declared war on…
1923 – Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military. 1931 – Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design. 1940 – Norway surrendered to the…
0452 – Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun. 0793 – The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England. 1786 – In New York City,…
1494 – Spain and Portugal divided the new lands they had discovered between themselves. 1498 – Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration.…
1674 – Sivaji crowned himself King of India. 1936 – The first helicopter was tested in a building in Berlin, Germany. 1941 – The U.S.…
1595 – Henry IV’s army defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise. 1752 – Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to…
1615 – The fortress of Osaka, Japan, fell to shogun Ieyasu after a six month siege. 1647 – The British army seized King Charles I…
1098 – Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey. 1539 – Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain. 1621 – The Dutch West…