A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History Klassic Studios

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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