Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Today: 1588: The English fleet sighted the Spanish Armada off Lizard Point, Cornwall. 1836: The Arc de Triomphe was inaugurated in Paris, France. 1890: Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh died in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, two days after shooting himself. 1899: The First Hague Convention, an international peace conference focused on the conduct of war, was signed […]
Monday, July 28, 2025
Today: 1493: The Great Fire of Moscow, Russia, occurred. 1540: Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII of England, was executed. 1794: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just were executed by guillotine in Paris, France, during the French Revolution. 1821: Jose de San Martin of Peru declared independence from Spain. 1868: The 14th […]
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Today: 1794: Maximilien Robespierre, a key figure in the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested. 1866: The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, connecting Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland. 1890: Painter Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later. 1940: Bugs Bunny makes his first official […]
Saturday, July 26 2025
Today: 1775: The department that would later become the United States Post Office is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin is appointed as the first Postmaster General. 1788: New York becomes the 11th state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1847: Liberia, a country founded by freed American slaves, declares its independence, becoming […]
Friday, July 25, 2025
Today: 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt. 1814: British and American forces fight to a standoff at Lundy’s Lane, Canada, during the War of 1812. 1861: The Crittenden Resolution, stating that the American Civil War was being fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress. 1867: President […]
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Today: 1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate her throne in favor of her one-year-old son, James VI. 1701: Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later became the city of Detroit. 1847: Brigham Young led 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley, leading to the […]
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Today: 1829: William Austin Burt patented the “typographer,” an early precursor to the typewriter in the United States. 1885: Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and a Civil War general, died at the age of 63. 1914: Austria-Hungary issued a harsh ultimatum to Serbia, nearly a month after the assassination of […]
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Today: 1686: Albany, New York, was formally chartered as a municipality. 1793: Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first recorded person to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America. 1862: President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. 1894: The world’s first competitive motor race was held […]
Monday, July 21, 2025
Today: 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson. 1798 – Napoleon Bonaparte’s French forces defeated the Mamluks at the Battle of the Pyramids in Egypt. 1861 – The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the American […]
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Today: 1304: King Edward I of England captured Stirling Castle in Scotland during the Scottish War of Independence. 1402: Timur, ruler of the Timurid Empire, defeated the forces of Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I at the Battle of Ankara. 1810: Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declared independence from Spain. 1881: Hunkpapa Teton Sioux […]