SomeFacts | May 12

On this day - May 12

254 — Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope ...

907 — Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang ...

1191 — Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus; ...

1328 — Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated ...

1364 — Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is ...

1497 — Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

1510 — The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all ...

1551 — National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in ...

1588 — French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after ...

1593 — London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the ...

1743 — Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after ...

1778 — Heinrich XI, count of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz, is ...

1780 — American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the ...

1797 — War of the First Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte conquers Venice.

1808 — Finnish War: Swedish-Finnish troops, led by Captain Karl ...

1821 — The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence ...

1846 — The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri ...

1862 — American Civil War: Union Army troops occupy Baton Rouge, ...

1863 — American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James ...

1864 — American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: ...

1865 — American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day ...

1870 — The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for ...

1881 — In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.

1885 — North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting ...

1926 — The 1926 United Kingdom general strike ends.

1926 — The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to ...

1932 — Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr., the infant son of ...

1933 — President Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Federal ...

1933 — The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural ...

1937 — King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom are ...

1941 — Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working ...

1942 — World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the ...

1942 — World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, ...

1949 — Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.

1965 — The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.

1968 — Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack ...

1975 — Indochina Wars: Democratic Kampuchea naval forces capture the ...

1978 — In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center ...

1982 — During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in ...

1989 — The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people, only to ...

2002 — Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a ...

2003 — The Riyadh compound bombings in Saudi Arabia, carried out by ...

2006 — Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian ...

2006 — Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São ...

2008 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the ...

2008 — An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in ...

2010 — Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to ...

2015 — Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more ...

2015 — A train derailment in Philadelphia, United States, kills eight ...

2017 — The WannaCry ransomware attack impacts over 400,000 computers ...

2018 — Paris knife attack: A man is fatally shot by police in Paris ...

2024 — Middle/End of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set ...