Category: What Happened on this DAY?

Pre-1600[edit] 1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book Revelations of Divine Love.[1] 1601-1900[edit] 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason. 1779 – War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In […]

254 – Pope Stephen I takes office, and takes a stand against Novatianism.[1] 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule. 1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus;[2] she is crowned Queen consort of England the same day. 1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice. 1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków.[3] […]

Pre-1600[edit] 330 – Constantinople is consecrated.[1] 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.[2] 912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.[3] 1601-1900[edit] 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch–Hanoverian army.[4] 1792 – Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.[5] 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British […]

Pre-1600[edit] 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.[1] 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king.[2] 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.[3] 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.[4] 1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.[5] 1601-1900[edit] 1688 – […]

  1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy. 1386 – England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force. 1450 – ‘Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated. 1540 – Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California. 1662 – The figure who later […]

  Pre-1600[edit] 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. 413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.[1] 589 – Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic […]

351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.[1] 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction.[2] Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt. 1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope. 1487 – The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista. 1544 – The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army […]

1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.[1] 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish. 1536 – King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church. In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose. 1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at […]

553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.[1] 1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. 1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.[2] 1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.[3] 1654 – Cromwell’s Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh. 1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty […]

Pre-1600[edit] 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. 1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between […]