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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 190

303 - 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued
1208 - St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy
1296 - Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos
1387 - King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1389 - Battle at Falköping: Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden
1496 - England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
1510 - Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice
1525 - Battle at Pavia: Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king
1525 - Francois I caught taken/8700 killed
1525 - Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia
1527 - Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia
1528 - Hungarian anti-king Janos Zapolyai & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1530 - 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V
1538 - King Ferdinand of Austria & King Janos Zapolyai of Hungary sign Peace of Grosswardein
1538 - Treaty of Nagyvarad between Ferdinand I and John Zápolya.
1541 - Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12)
1552 - Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1597 - Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main
1607 - Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo," premieres in Mantua
1613 - English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts
1708 - Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen
1711 - Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London
1739 - Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1779 - George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
1786 - Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India
1793 - French troops conquer Breda
1803 - Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
1804 - London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1807 - 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England
1821 - Mexico gains independence from Spain
1826 - The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
1835 - Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag
1836 - 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days
1839 - Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
1848 - King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
1855 - US Court of Claims forms for cases against govt
1857 - 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to govt
1857 - LA Vineyard Society organized
1863 - Arizona Territory created
1863 - Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee
1864 - -Feb 25] Battle of Tunnel Hill, GA (Buzzard's Roost)
1868 - 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama)
1868 - House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1875 - The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1876 - Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo
1881 - De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal
1881 - China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1888 - Louisville, Ky becomes 1st govt in US to adopt Australian ballot
1891 - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan
1893 - The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America.
1894 - Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
1895 - Cuban war for independence begins
1896 - Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27
1899 - Western Washington University is established.
1902 - Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British
1903 - US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
1905 - Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1909 - The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
1914 - Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in NYC
1917 - German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1917 - Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,000
1917 - Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
1918 - Estonia declares independence from Russia
1918 - Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 - NSDAP begins at Hofbrauhaus Munich
1920 - Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
1921 - 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida
1923 - Flying Scotsman goes into service
1923 - Mass arrests in US of mafia
1924 - Greek parliament proclaims republic
1924 - Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100m record (57 2/5 secs)
1924 - Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
1925 - Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
1927 - John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC
1932 - Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona
1933 - Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
1933 - League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
1937 - 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
1938 - Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1939 - Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
1940 - Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
1941 - 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
1941 - Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1942 - The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day.
1943 - Gen-major Bradley flies to Algiers
1943 - Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
1944 - Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
1945 - Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 - Manila freed from Japanese
1945 - Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
1945 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1946 - Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
1948 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1949 - Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1949 - V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
1950 - Labour wins British parliamentary election
1951 - "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 perfs
1951 - Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER

Famous Birthdays

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1103 - Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
1304 - Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
1304 - Ibn Battuta, Arabian explorer (d. 1368) ?
1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
1500 - Carlos V, King of Spain (1516-56)/Holy Roman Emperor
1501 - Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Suzanna)
1536 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
1545 - Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader (d. 1578)
1547 - Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland
1557 - Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
1595 - Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet
1597 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
1619 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690)
1622 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
1679 - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
1684 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia
1684 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
1693 - James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
1697 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist
1704 - Hubert Renotte, composer
1709 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
1717 - Bernhard Hupfeld, composer
1723 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
1766 - Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
1771 - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1774 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
1786 - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1786 - Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
1797 - Samuel Lover, composer
1809 - Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
1811 - Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1811 - Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
1824 - John Crawford Vaughn, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1827 - Charles Davis Jameson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1831 - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia
1833 - Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
1836 - Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream)
1838 - Thomas Benton Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
1842 - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer
1846 - Luigi Denza, composer
1848 - C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
1848 - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris)
1848 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)
1852 - George A Moore, Ireland, painter/novelist (Esther Waters)
1854 - Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Golden Rain)
1858 - Arnold Dolmetsch, Le Mans, musician
1860 - Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
1866 - Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
1866 - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
1866 - Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (d. 1961)
1872 - John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
1874 - Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)
1876 - Jean Poveigh, composer
1876 - Victor Moore, Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
1877 - Rudolf Ganz, composer
1877 - Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (d. 1936)
1879 - Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun)
1885 - Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
1885 - Chester Nimitz, US admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II)
1885 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1885 - Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
1885 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
1887 - Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate)
1890 - Antonio Massana, composer
1890 - Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
1898 - Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
1899 - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
1905 - E Boyland, biochemist
1905 - Guillaume Landre, composer
1906 - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
1909 - August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
1909 - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
1909 - Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
1909 - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
1910 - Lord Hazlerigg
1911 - Konrad Lechner, composer
1912 - Julius Kowalski, composer
1913 - Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
1914 - David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
1914 - Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
1914 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005)
1915 - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist
1916 - Gene Mitchell, museum director
1917 - William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
1919 - Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
1919 - Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
1920 - Frank Rogers, CEO (NPA Telegraph)
1921 - Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
1921 - Douglass Watson, Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World)
1921 - Ingvar Lidholm, composer
1921 - Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer
1921 - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1992)
1922 - Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
1922 - Richard Hamilton, painter
1922 - Steven Hill, Seattle WA, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law & Order)
1923 - David Soyer, American cellist
1924 - Lionel Dakers, director (Royal School of Church Music)
1924 - William Pillar, British admiral
1926 - Reginald Freeson, British MP
1926 - Jean Alexander, English actress

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 112

616 - King Ethelbert of Kent
1525 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1563 - Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44
1588 - Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
1642 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
1666 - Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77
1674 - Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
1685 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
1686 - Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
1692 - Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74
1704 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
1714 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
1721 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1732 - Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
1735 - Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56
1777 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
1779 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
1781 - Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)
1784 - Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65
1785 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
1799 - Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41
1799 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56
1806 - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
1810 - Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies
1812 - Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61
1812 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
1815 - Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies
1825 - Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies
1829 - Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
1862 - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
1874 - Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49
1876 - Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
1876 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1895 - Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87
1907 - Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77
1908 - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
1914 - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1919 - Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
1922 - Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
1924 - Edmond Picard, Fren/Belg writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
1925 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1926 - Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
1929 - Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
1930 - Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
1933 - Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64
1941 - Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
1944 - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80
1945 - Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1953 - Karl R G von Rundstedt, Germ gen-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77
1958 - Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
1960 - Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
1964 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
1964 - Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
1967 - Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
1969 - Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61
1970 - Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
1973 - Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
1975 - Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
1976 - Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82
1976 - H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69
1976 - Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85
1982 - Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
1983 - Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
1984 - Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1984 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
1986 - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
1987 - Jim Connors, Legendary Radio personality (b. 1940)
1988 - Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
1989 - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
1990 - Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
1990 - Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
1990 - Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
1990 - Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
1991 - George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
1991 - Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
1991 - Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
1991 - Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64
1992 - Kay Loring, dies after long illness
1993 - Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies
1993 - Toy Caldwell, guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
1993 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
1994 - Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
1994 - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
1994 - Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87
1994 - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
1994 - Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96
1995 - Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
1996 - Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82
1996 - Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
1996 - James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
1996 - Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
1997 - Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
1998 - Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92
1998 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
1999 - Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
1999 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
2001 - Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
2002 - Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
2002 - Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
2003 - John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)