Thursday, August 15, 2024
Today: 718 – The Second Arab siege of Constantinople ended, resulting in a Byzantine victory. 927 – The Saracens conquered and destroyed the city of Taranto in Southern Italy. 1057 – King Macbeth of Scotland was killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by Malcolm Canmore, who later became Malcolm III. 1096 – The First Crusade […]
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Today: 1040 – King Duncan I of Scotland was killed in battle by Macbeth, who then became King of Scotland. 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral was laid in Germany. 1352 – The Battle of Mauron occurred during the Breton War of Succession, with a victory for the French army. 1880 – The […]
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Today: 1521 – Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés captured Tenochtitlán, marking the fall of the Aztec Empire. 1624 – Cardinal Richelieu became the chief minister to King Louis XIII of France. 1704 – The Battle of Blenheim took place during the War of the Spanish Succession, resulting in a decisive victory for the English and their […]
Monday, August 12, 2024
Today: 30 BC: Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, commits suicide. 1099: The First Crusade ends with the Battle of Ascalon, where Crusaders defeated the Fatimid army. 1484: The Sistine Chapel is consecrated by Pope Sixtus IV in Vatican City. 1624: Cardinal Richelieu is appointed Chief Minister of France by […]
Sunday, August 11, 2024
Today: 1492: Rodrigo de Borja is elected as Pope Alexander VI. 1675: Construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London begins. 1786: Captain Francis Light lands on Penang Island in Malaysia, establishing the British colony of George Town. 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career. 1934: […]
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Today: 612 BCE: The Battle of Nineveh takes place, where Babylonian forces, allied with the Medes and Scythians, defeat the Assyrians, leading to the fall of the Assyrian Empire. 955: The Battle of Lechfeld occurs, where Otto I, King of Germany, defeats the Hungarian forces, marking the end of Hungarian invasions in Western Europe. 1519: […]
Friday, August 9, 2024
Today: 1173: Construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa began in Pisa, Italy. 1483: The Sistine Chapel was consecrated by Pope Sixtus IV. 1803: The Royal Navy bombarded and destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of Boulogne. 1842: The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed, establishing the U.S.-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains. 1854: Henry […]
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Today: 1709 – The first known ascent in a hot air balloon took place in Lisbon. 1786 – Mont Blanc was first climbed by Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat. 1876 – Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph. 1908 – Wilbur Wright made his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. 1929 […]
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Today: 1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence, Italy. 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden. 1782 – George Washington creates the Purple Heart medal (originally called the Badge of Military Merit) as commander-in-chief […]
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Today: 1181 – Supernova SN 1181 was first observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in the constellation Cassiopeia. 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, was founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States were delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. 1806 – The Holy Roman Empire […]