Year 55 » Britannicus called Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Ancient Rome or Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
Year 244 » Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutiny called mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
Year 660 Calendar » Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
Year 1531 Calendar » Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
Year 1626 Calendar » Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church e.g Ethiopian Church, and Catholic Church called Roman Catholicism the state religion of Ethiopia.
Year 1659 Calendar » Assault on Copenhagen (1659) known as The assault on Copenhagen by Sweden or Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
Year 1790 Calendar » The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions United States Congress or U.S. Congress for Abolitionism in the United States named abolition of slavery.
Year 1794 Calendar » First session of United States Senate opens to the public.
Year 1808 Calendar » Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
Year 1812 Calendar » Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry "gerrymandering known as gerrymanders" for the first time.
Year 1826 Calendar » Swaminarayan writes the 'Shikshapatri', an important text within Swaminarayan Hinduism.
Year 1826 » University College London is founded under the name 'University of London'.
Year 1855 Calendar » Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam
Year 1856 Calendar » The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Kolkata named Calcutta.
Year 1861 Calendar » American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
Year 1889 Calendar » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first National Diet convenes in 1890.
Year 1906 Calendar » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical 'Vehementer Nos'.
Year 1916 Calendar » Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
Year 1919 Calendar » Friedrich Ebert (Social Democratic Party of Germany e.g SPD), is elected President of Germany.
Year 1929 Calendar » Kingdom of Italy e.g Fascist Italy and the Holy See e.g Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
Year 1937 Calendar » A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers.
Year 1939 Calendar » A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
Year 1943 Calendar » World War II: General (United States) named General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the Allies of World War II or allied armies in Europe.
Year 1953 Calendar » President of the United States named U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Year 1953 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
Year 1959 Calendar » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
Year 1964 Calendar » Greece or Greeks and Turkey or Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
Year 1971 Calendar » Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
Year 1973 Calendar » Vietnam War: First release of American prisoner of war known as prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
Year 1978 Calendar » Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
Year 1979 Calendar » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Year 1981 Calendar » convert 100000 USgal m3 of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of Tennessee Valley Authority TVA Sequoyah Nuclear Generating Station Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.
Year 1990 Calendar » Nelson Mandela is released from Drakenstein Correctional Centre or Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
Year 1997 Calendar » Space Shuttle Discovery known as Space Shuttle 'Discovery' is launched on a STS-82 e.g mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Year 2008 Calendar » Rebel East Timorese soldiers 2008 East Timorese assassination attempts named seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
Year 2008 » Namdaemun, a 550-year-old gate in South Korea, was 2008 Namdaemun fire or toppled by fire.
Year 2013 Calendar » Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the papacy, the first pontiff to resign in more than half a millennium.
Year 2014 Calendar » A military transport 2014 Algeria Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash e.g plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.