Year 480 Calendar » Odoacer, first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia. He later establishes his political power with the co-operation of the Roman Senate.
Year 536 Calendar » Gothic War (535–554) e.g Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Goths known as Gothic garrison flee the capital.
Year 730 Calendar » Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami.
Year 1425 Calendar » The Old University of Leuven named Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
Year 1531 Calendar » Our Lady of Guadalupe e.g The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
Year 1775 Calendar » American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
Year 1824 Calendar » Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
Year 1835 Calendar » Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
Year 1851 Calendar » The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
Year 1856 Calendar » The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
Year 1861 Calendar » American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the Congress of the United States e.g U.S. Congress.
Year 1872 Calendar » In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
Year 1888 Calendar » Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
Year 1897 Calendar » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper 'La Fronde (newspaper) called La Fronde' in Paris.
Year 1905 Calendar » In France, the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State or law separating church and state is passed.
Year 1911 Calendar » A Cross Mountain Mine disaster e.g mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
Year 1917 Calendar » World War I: In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby named Edmund Allenby Battle of Jerusalem (1917) e.g captures Jerusalem.
Year 1922 Calendar » Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
Year 1931 Calendar » The Constituent Cortes approves a Spanish Constitution of 1931 e.g constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
Year 1935 Calendar » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
Year 1935 » The Downtown Athletic Club named Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
Year 1937 Calendar » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking Imperial Japan e.g Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Republic of China known as Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).
Year 1941 Calendar » World War II: The American 19th Operations Group called 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
Year 1941 » World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and Commonwealth of the Philippines the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Nazi Germany Germany and Imperial Japan Japan.
Year 1946 Calendar » The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
Year 1950 Calendar » Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Year 1953 Calendar » Second Red Scare named Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
Year 1956 Calendar » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
Year 1958 Calendar » The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
Year 1962 Calendar » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
Year 1965 Calendar » Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that Kecksburg UFO incident 2005: NASA changes story to "Russian satellite" known as it examine
Year 1965 » A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
Year 1968 Calendar » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the Mouse (computer) named computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the NLS (computer system) named oN-Line System (NLS).
Year 1969 Calendar » U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes Rogers Plan his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO, which leads to Black September in Jordan civil
Year 1971 » Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 e.g Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes Meghna Heli Bridge e.g an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
Year 1973 Calendar » British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive (1974) known as Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
Year 1979 Calendar » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
Year 1987 Calendar » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Year 1988 Calendar » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
Year 2003 Calendar » A Red Square Bombing e.g blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
Year 2013 Calendar » At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a 2013 Bintaro train crash named train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.