Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Today: 1099: Christian soldiers of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem after a difficult siege. 1799: The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign. 1806: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike began an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the […]
Monday, July 14, 2025
Today: 1789: The storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, which marked a pivotal moment and the beginning of the French Revolution. 1798: The Sedition Act was passed in the United States, making it a federal crime to publish “false or malicious” content against the government. 1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot […]
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Today: 1787: The United States Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance, establishing procedures for territories to become states and banning slavery in the Northwest Territory. 1793: French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday. 1814: The Carabinieri, Italy’s national military police force, was created. 1863: The New York City draft riots […]
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Today: 1389: Geoffrey Chaucer was appointed chief clerk by King Richard II in Westminster. 1543: King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace. 1580: The Ostrog Bible, one of the earliest printed Bibles in a Slavic language, was published in Ostroh, Ukraine. 1862: The United States […]
Friday, July 11, 2025
Today: 1656: The first Quakers to arrive in America, Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, landed in Boston and were subsequently imprisoned and expelled. 1782: British forces evacuated Savannah, Georgia, during the final years of the American Revolution. 1798: The United States Marine Corps was formally re-established by an act of Congress, having been disbanded after […]
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Today: 1553: Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England. 1832: U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoed a bill to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States. 1890: Wyoming became the 44th state admitted to the United States. 1893: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed one of the world’s first successful open-heart surgeries in Chicago. 1925: […]
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. […]