Posts published in “Today in History”

   1814 Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.    1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone    1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor…

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures 1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council 1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese 1947 XB-45, 1st US…

1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber “Texas” model 1945 World War II: The Battle of the Ruhr begins. 1948 US rocket flies record 4800…

1238 Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu…

1409 Austrian civil war ends 1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute 1857 Second Opium War: France and the…

   1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.    1865 Second Taranaki War: The Volkner Incident in New…

   1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians    1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.    1912 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs…

202 BC – coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han dynasty’s rule over China…

380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity…

747 BC – Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy’s Nabonassar Era. 364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by…

138 – The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. 1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather…

303 – Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire. 1386 – King Charles III of…

303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian…

705 – Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty. 1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States…

1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery 1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected…

1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark 1547 – Edward VI of…

197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. 356 – Emperor Constantius II…

364 – Roman Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route…

116 – Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia. 1646 – Battle…

590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in…