Events 1 - 200 of 228
- 1035 Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
Conrad II
1087 German Emperor Henry IV crowns his son Conrad II, King of Germany
- 1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
- 1381 English peasant uprising begins in Essex
- 1416 Jerome of Prague burned at the stake for heresy by church Council of Constance
Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake
1431 Hundred Years' War: 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France
- 1434 The Battle of Lipany (also called the Battle of Česky Brod), ending Taborites influence
Margaret of Anjou Crowned
1445 Coronation as Margaret of Anjou as Queen Consort of England at Westminster Abbey
Portuguese Abandon Goa
1510 Portuguese forces under Afonso de Albuquerque abandon Goa after its former ruler Yusuf Adil Shah, the Muslim King of Bijapur reconquers the city
- 1564 (-31st) The first battle of Öland (between the islands of Gotland and Öland): Lübeck & Denmark beat Sweden
- 1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
- 1584 Earl Adolf of Nieuwenaar and Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
- 1591 Spanish troops in Zutphen surrender to Dutch and English forces under Maurice of Nassau
- 1626 An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people
- 1631 The Treaty of Fontainebleau signed between Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and the Kingdom of France, establishing a secret alliance between them during the Thirty Years' War.
Peace of Prague
1635 The Peace of Prague signed between the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II and the Electorate of Saxony (representing Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire). It effectively ended the civil war aspect of the Thirty Years' War
Royal Honours Annulled
1642 All honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament
- 1646 Spain & Netherlands sign temporary cease fire
Margaret Cavendish
1667 Margaret Cavendish is the first woman to attend a meeting of the Royal Society, watching demonstrations by Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke [1]
- 1783 Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
- 1793 French revolutionary Georges Couthon chosen to be a member of French Committee the Salut Public
Andrew Jackson's Deadly Duel
1806 Future US President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson's wife of bigamy
Napoléon Annexes Tuscany
1808 Napoleon Bonaparte annexes Tuscany and gives it seats in the French Senate
- 1814 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
- 1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
- 1822 George Wilson and Joe LaRoche betray a planned slave revolt organized by Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina, confirming an earlier warning from Peter Prioleau. 35 Black people are later hanged. (date is approximate)
- 1832 Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
- 1832 The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened. Oldest continuously operated canal system in North America.
Assassination Attempt on Queen Victoria
1842 John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
- 1848 Second Battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
- 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between the United States and Mexico comes into force, giving California Nevada, Utah and most of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona to the US in return for $15 million
- 1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer
- 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
- 1858 Hudson's Bay Company's rights to Vancouver Island revoked
- 1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
- 1864 Battle of Bethesda Church [Totopotomoy Creek], cavalry battle fought in Hanover County, Virginia, inconclusive result (US Civil War)
- 1866 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
- 1868 "Decoration Day", later called Memorial Day is first observed in Northern US states
- 1876 Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
- 1879 92°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
- 1879 An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
- 1879 Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1883 Stampede caused by a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse kills 12
- 1890 First baseman Dave Foutz hits Brooklyn Bridegrooms' (later Dodgers) first ever home run during doubleheader defeats to Chicago Colts at Washington Park, Brooklyn
- 1894 Boston Beaneaters baseball second baseman Bobby Lowe first to hit 4 home runs in MLB game in 20-11 win against Cincinnati Reds
W. G. Grace Scores 1000
1895 English cricket icon W. G. Grace scores 169 for Gloucestershire against Middlesex at Lord's for his 1,000th first-class run of the season in just 22 days
- 1896 First car accident occurs; Henry Wells hits a cyclist in NYC
- 1901 Hall of Fame for Great Americans dedicated on NYU campus
- 1902 Spanish King Alfonso XII, who was elected as a constitutional monarch, suspends the Cortes, Spain's parliament
- 1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
- 1904 The Japanese Army capture the City of Dairen after landing troops along the south coast of Manchuria
Hersheypark Opens
1906 Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened
- 1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
- 1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
- 1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
- 1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
- 1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
- 1911 1st Indianapolis 500: Ray Harroun driving a Marmon Wasp for Nordyke & Marmon Company comes out of retirement, wins inaugural event; average speed: 74.602 mph (120.060 km/h)
- 1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
- 1913 John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack as managers who have won 1,000 games
- 1913 Treaty of London signed by the Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Balkan League (Serbia, Greece, Kingdom of Bulgaria, and Montenegro) bringing an end to the First Balkan War
- 1914 The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- 1917 Jazz standard "Dark Town Strutters Ball" by Shelton Brooks recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- 1921 Lord Dunsany's "If" premieres in London
- 1921 Memorial to Capt. Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds, NYC
- 1921 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
- 1922 Cubs and Cardinals trade outfielders between morning and afternoon games of doubleheader; Max Flack goes to St. Louis, Cliff Heathcote heads to Chicago; both get hits for new clubs in the nightcap
- 1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord
- 1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
- 1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
- 1925 In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
- 1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
Walter Johnson's Record Shutout
1927 Walter Johnson records 110th and final shutout of his Baseball HOF career, the most in MLB history; Washington Senators score 3-0 win over Boston Red Sox
- 1930 Shedd Aquarium, one of the first inland aquariums in the world, opens in Chicago, Illinois
- 1931 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
- 1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
- 1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
Babe Ruth's Final Bat
1935 Philadelphia pitcher Jim Bivin retires Babe Ruth on an infield grounder in "the Babe's" final MLB at-bat; Ruth plays just 1 inning in Boston Braves, 11-6 loss to Phillies at the Baker Bowl
- 1937 Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago Police Department shoot and kill 10 unarmed demonstrators during the "Little Steel Strike" in the United States
- 1938 New York Yankees sweep arch rival Boston Red Sox, 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
The Incredible Flutist
1938 Walter Piston's dance work, The Incredible Flutist, written for the Boston Pops Orchestra, which premieres it, Arthur Fiedler conducting
- 1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
- 1941 British Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
- 1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II
Himmler in Prague
1942 Reichsfuehrer Herman Himmler arrives in Prague
Paige Defeats Dizzy Dean All-Stars
1942 Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
- 1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
- 1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
Transport No. 75
1944 Transport No. 75 departs Drancy (France) internment camp, taking 1,000 French Jews to Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi German occupied Poland; 627 killed upon arrival, approximately 99 survive the war
- 1946 Bama Rowell hits a home run in a baseball match - the ball shatters Bulova Clock in Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York
- 1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
- 1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
- 1949 East German constitution approved
- 1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
- 1949 WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
- 1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
- 1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
- 1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
- 1954 Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca" premieres
- 1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 Said el-Mufti forms Jordan government
- 1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
- 1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
Baseball History
1956 Mickey Mantle misses by 18 inches hitting 1st home run out of Yankee Stadium in the first game of a doubleheader against the Washington Senators
- 1956 US performs nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll (atmospheric tests)
- 1957 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
- 1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
- 1958 US performs nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll (atmospheric tests)
- 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom)
- 1959 President Luis Somoza Debayle ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
- 1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
- 1959 The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
- 1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
Assassination of Rafael Trujillo
1961 Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- 1961 Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
- 1962 69 killed in bus crash in Ahmedabad, India
- 1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
- 1964 Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game & NY's 22 K's in 2nd games
- 1964 The Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1 in the United States
- 1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
- 1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
- 1965 Vivian Malone is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
- 1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
- 1966 The Beatles release single "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" in US; "Rain" featured experimental studio tricks of slowed down bass and drums tracks, and backwards vocals in the fade out
- 1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
Evel Knievel Jumps 16 Cars
1967 American motorcycle daredevil Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles in Gardena, California
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967 Argentinian author Gabriel García Márquez's most important work "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is published in Buenos Aires
- 1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
- 1967 Republic of Biafra, a predominantly Igbo secessionist state in eastern Nigeria, is founded by Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Whitey Ford Retires
1967 Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
- 1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "The Beatles" -popularly known as "The White Album"
- 1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
- 1968 The Paulinerkirche, a church built in 1231 at the University of Leipzig, is demolished by the East German communist regime to make way for new development; protesters are arrested
- 1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
- 1969 Australian Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp, Belgium; record disputed (short course)
- 1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
- 1969 Riots by oil workers striking against economic and racial disparities in Willemstad, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles spark calls for the island's independence
- 1970 Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
Sports History
1970 Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
- 1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
- 1971 Train crash at Duivendrecht, Netherlands, 5 die
- 1971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
Baseball Record
1971 Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored
- 1972 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
- 1972 The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
Living in the Material World
1973 George Harrison releases his fourth studio album "Living in the Material World" in the US
- 1975 European Space Agency (ESA) forms
- 1977 Cleveland Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0
- 1978 31st Cannes Film Festival: "The Tree of Wooden Clogs" directed by Ermanno Olmi wins the Palme d'Or
- 1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
- 1979 Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
- 1980 1st papal visit to France since 1814
- 1980 Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
- 1980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
- 1980 Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games
- 1981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
- 1981 LA Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendance in a season in only 22 games
- 1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
Baseball History
1983 AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires
- 1983 Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
- 1984 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Edén Pastora's headquarters in Nicaragua
- 1984 NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
1985 Stanley Cup Final, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, AL: Edmonton Oilers take back-to-back titles; beat Philadelphia Flyers, 8-3 for a 4-1 series victory; Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri each post a goal and 3 assists
- 1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
Barry Bonds Debut
1986 Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates
- 1986 France performs nuclear test
Tyson TKOs Thomas
1987 Mike Tyson beats Pinklon Thomas by TKO in round 6 in Las Vegas to retain WBC / WBA heavyweight boxing titles
- 1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
- 1987 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,878.56
- 1991 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling 'antipyretic'
- 1991 Mexican-American Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance, covering 21.101 km; record broken in 2007
- 1991 US Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police and can be held accountable (Burns v, Reed)
- 1992 NY Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
- 1992 NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
- 1992 UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
- 1996 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
- 1996 Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play & nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension
- 1996 John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
Event of Interest
1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set on fire by 12-year-old grandson
NHL History
1997 Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
- 1998 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
- 1998 Super Rugby Final, Eden Park, Auckland: In an all-NZ final, Andrew Mehrtens lands 2 penalties & 2 conversions as the Canterbury Crusaders beat the Blues, 20-13; Crusaders' first title
- 1999 Super Rugby Final, Carisbrook, Dunedin: Canterbury Crusaders retain title with a 24-19 win over Otago Highlanders; flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens kicks 3 penalties, a conversion & dropped goal for the winners
Finding Nemo
2003 Animated fish tale "Finding Nemo", directed by Andrew Stanton, and starring Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres premieres in US and Canada
Hell's Kitchen
2005 Gordon Ramsay first appears on US television in cooking competition show "Hell's Kitchen" on Fox
Sports History
2008 Stacy Lewis helps the U.S. team win the Curtis Cup, going 5-0 in the matches, and turns professional immediately afterward
- 2009 Super Rugby Final, Pretoria: Morné Steyn kicks 5 conversions & 2 penalties as the Bulls thump the Chiefs (Waikato, NZ), 61-17
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