Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Today: 1540: King Henry VIII of England’s marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, was annulled. 1609: Emperor Rudolf II granted Bohemia freedom of worship through the Letter of Majesty. 1755: General Edward Braddock’s British forces were defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in the Battle of the Monongahela during the […]
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Today: 951 – The City of Paris is founded. 1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India. 1776 – The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence occurs in Philadelphia. 1777 – Vermont abolishes slavery. 1853 – Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Tokyo Bay, Japan, with four […]
Monday, July 7, 2025
Today: 1124: The city of Tyre fell to the Venetian Crusade after a nineteen-week siege. 1456: A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution. 1520: Spanish conquistadors defeated a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba. 1798: The US Congress rescinded the Treaty of Alliance with France, sparking […]
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Today: 371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra occurs, shattering Sparta’s reputation of military invincibility. 1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania. 1415 – Jan Hus, an early church reformer, is condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake. 1483 – Richard III and Anne Neville are crowned King and Queen of England. […]
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Today: 1687: Isaac Newton publishes “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica,” laying out his laws of motion and universal gravitation. 1775: The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition, an attempt to avoid a full-scale war with Great Britain. 1811: Venezuela declares its independence from Spain, beginning its war for independence. 1852: Frederick Douglass delivers his […]
Friday, July 4, 2025
Today: 1776: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. 1802: The United States Military Academy opens at West Point, New York. 1817: Construction on the Erie Canal begins in Rome, New York. 1826: Former Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both signers of the Declaration of Independence, die on […]
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Today: 1608: Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City, the first permanent European settlement in Canada. 1775: George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1863: The Battle of Gettysburg ended with a Union victory, a turning point in the American Civil War. 1890: Idaho was admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. 1938: […]
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Today: 1644: The Battle of Marston Moor took place during the English Civil War, a significant victory for the Parliamentarian forces. 1698: Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine. 1776: The Continental Congress voted for independence from Great Britain. 1788: The U.S. Congress announced that the United States Constitution had been ratified by the required […]
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Today: 1535: Sir Thomas More, English statesman and author, went on trial for treason for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England. 1690: In the Battle of the Boyne, King William III of England defeated former King James II, who was attempting to take back the throne of […]
Monday, June 30, 2025
Today: 1520: “La Noche Triste” (The Night of Sadness) occurred, during which Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés were expelled from Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City) by the rebelling Aztecs. 1860: A famous debate on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection took place at the Oxford University Museum in England. 1905: Albert Einstein published […]