Posts published in “Today in History”

1794 – Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen. 1794 – The United States Post Office was established.…

Indian Border Roads was born on 7th May 1960 1429 – The English siege of Orleans was broken by Joan of Arc. 1525 – The German…

1527 – German troops began sacking Rome, bringing about the end of the Renaissance. 1529 – Babur defeated the Afghan Chiefs in the Battle of…

1494 – Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica on his second trip to the Western Hemisphere. He named the island Santa Gloria. 1798 – U.S. Secretary of…

1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte disembarked at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. 1863 – The Battle of Chancellorsville ended when the Union…

1469 – Italian philosopher/writer Niccolo Machiavelli was born 1568 – French forces in Florida slaughtered hundreds of Spanish. 1802 – Washington, DC, was incorporated as…

1670 – The Hudson Bay Company was founded by England’s King Charles II. 1776 – France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels…

  Celebrated as Labour Day and observed as a holiday in many parts of the world. 0408 – Theodosius II succeeded to the throne of…

0030 – Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. 1250 – King Louis IX of France was ransomed for one million dollars. 1527 – Henry VIII and…

1289 – Qala’un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli. 1429 – Joan of Arc led Orleans, France, to victory over Britain. 1661 – The Chinese…

1686 – The first volume of Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathamatic” was published. 1789 – A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew…

1296 – The Scots were defeated by Edward I at the Battle of Dunbar. 1805 – A force led by U.S. Marines captured the city…

1514 – Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn. 1607 – The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent…

1590 – The Sultan of Morocco launched his successful attack to capture Timbuktu. 1644 – The Ming Chongzhen emperor committed suicide by hanging himself.  1707…

1558 – Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis. 1800 – The Library of Congress was established with a $5,000 allocation. 1805 –…

1348 – The first English order of knighthood was founded. It was the Order of the Garter. 1564 – Poet, playwright William Shakespeare  (“Julius Caesar,” “Romeo and Juliet,”…

1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil. 1509 – Henry VIII ascended to the throne of England upon the death of his father…

753 BC – Today is the traditional date of the foundation of Rome. 1526 – Mongol Emperor Babur annihilated the Indian Army of Ibrahim Lodi.…

1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake fought his last battle when he destroyed the Spanish fleet in Santa Cruz Bay. 1689 – The siege of…

1539 – Emperor Charles V reached a truce with German Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany. 1587 – English admiral Sir Francis Drake entered Cadiz harbor and…