Saturday, August 2, 2025
Today: 338 BC: The Battle of Chaeronea takes place, where a Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece. 216 BC: During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae. 1776: Most […]
Friday, August 1, 2025
Today: 217 BC: The Battle of Lake Trasimene occurred, a major engagement of the Second Punic War, where Hannibal’s Carthaginian forces ambushed and decisively defeated the Roman army. 527: Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire upon the death of his uncle, Justin I. 1291: The three founding cantons of Uri, Schwyz, […]
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Today: 1498: Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, arrived at the island of Trinidad. 1588: The Spanish Armada was spotted off the coast of England. 1776: During the American Revolution, Francis Salvador became the first Jew to die in the conflict. 1790: The U.S. Patent Office first opened its doors and […]
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Today: 762: Baghdad is founded. 1419: The First Defenestration of Prague occurs, as radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. 1619: The first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time in Jamestown. 1729: The city of Baltimore, Maryland, is founded. 1864: During the […]
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 […]