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838 — Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a ...
1099 — First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first ...
1209 — Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the ...
1227 — A coalition of north-east German towns, counts and princes ...
1298 — Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward ...
1342 — St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on ...
1443 — Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War.
1456 — Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, ...
1484 — Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by ...
1499 — Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of ...
1587 — Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on ...
1594 — The Dutch city of Groningen defended by the Spanish and ...
1598 — William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, is ...
1686 — Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by ...
1706 — The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from ...
1793 — Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the ...
1796 — Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio ...
1797 — Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and ...
1802 — Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which ...
1805 — Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape ...
1812 — Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British ...
1833 — The Slavery Abolition Act passes in the British House of ...
1864 — American Civil War: In the Battle of Atlanta, Confederate ...
1893 — Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" ...
1894 — The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities ...
1916 — Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on ...
1921 — Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in ...
1933 — Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York ...
1936 — Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia ...
1937 — New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President ...
1942 — Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from ...
1942 — The United States government begins compulsory civilian ...
1943 — World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a ...
1943 — World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied ...
1944 — The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its ...
1946 — King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, ...
1951 — Soviet space dogs: Dezik and Tsygan were launched into a ...
1962 — Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically ...
1963 — Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance.
1973 — Pan Am Flight 816 crashes after takeoff from Faa'a ...
1976 — Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war ...
1977 — Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1981 — The first game of the 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of ...
1983 — Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1990 — Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third ...
1992 — Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from ...
1993 — Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, ...
1997 — The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, ...
2003 — Iraq War: Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, ...
2005 — Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins ...
2011 — Norway attacks: A bomb explodes, targeted at government ...
2012 — Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) ...
2013 — Dingxi earthquakes: A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, ...
2019 — Chandrayaan-2, the second lunar exploration mission developed ...