Year 1194 Calendar » King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
Year 1230 Calendar » William de Braose (died 1230) named William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
Year 1335 Calendar » Otto, Duke of Austria e.g Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Carinthia (duchy) known as Duke of Carinthia.
Year 1536 Calendar » Anne Boleyn, Queen consort known as Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
Year 1559 Calendar » John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
Year 1568 Calendar » Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
Year 1611 Calendar » The King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
Year 1672 Calendar » John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale called John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
Year 1808 Calendar » Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid Dos de Mayo Uprising or rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
Year 1816 Calendar » Marriage of Leopold I of Belgium called Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales.
Year 1829 Calendar » After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger 1826 6, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
Year 1863 Calendar » American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later.
Year 1866 Calendar » Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
Year 1885 Calendar » 'Good Housekeeping' magazine goes on sale for the first time.
Year 1885 » Cree and Assiniboine people or Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
Year 1885 » The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
Year 1889 Calendar » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
Year 1906 Calendar » Closing ceremony of the 1906 Intercalated Games e.g Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
Year 1918 Calendar » General Motors Corporation named General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
Year 1920 Calendar » The first game of the Negro National League (1920-1931) called Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
Year 1945 Calendar » World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
Year 1945 » World War II: Italian Campaign (World War II) or Italian Campaign General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy.
Year 1945 » World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag (building) named 'Reichstag' building.
Year 1946 Calendar » The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place; two guards and three inmates are killed.
Year 1955 Calendar » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'.
Year 1963 Calendar » Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
Year 1964 Calendar » First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
Year 1964 » Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card CVE-11 6 while it is docked at Ho Chi Minh City Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
Year 1969 Calendar » The British ocean liner 'Queen Elizabeth 2' departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
Year 1972 Calendar » In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers.
Year 1982 Calendar » Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror S48 6 sinks the Argentina Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano ARA 'General Belgrano'.
Year 1986 Calendar » Chernobyl disaster e.g The Chernobyl Disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the Chernobyl disaster known as disaster
Year 1994 Calendar » A bus Poland bus disaster of 1994 e.g crashes in Gdańsk or Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people.
Year 1995 Calendar » During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces Zagreb rocket attack called fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
Year 1999 Calendar » Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected List of heads of state of Panama or President of Panama.
Year 2000 Calendar » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate Global Positioning System or GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States Armed Forces called United States military.
Year 2004 Calendar » Yelwa massacre ended. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims attacked the Christians of Yelwa killing more than 78 Christians including at least 48 who were worshipping inside a church compound. More than 630 nomad Muslims were killed by Christian
Year 2008 Calendar » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
Year 2008 » Chaitén (volcano) named Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
Year 2011 Calendar » An 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak named E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
Year 2012 Calendar » A pastel version of 'The Scream', by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
Year 2014 Calendar » 2014 Badakhshan mudslides known as Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.