Year 380 » Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizenship e.g Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
Year 425 Calendar » The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
Year 907 Calendar » Abaoji, a Khitan people called Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu of Liao e.g Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China.
Year 1560 Calendar » The Treaty of Berwick (1560) named Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the France or French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
Year 1594 Calendar » Henry IV of France or Henry IV is crowned Monarch called King of France.
Year 1617 Calendar » Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
Year 1626 Calendar » Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
Year 1782 Calendar » American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
Year 1801 Calendar » Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the Congress of the United States named U.S. Congress.
Year 1812 Calendar » Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
Year 1812 » Poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron e.g Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
Year 1844 Calendar » The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
Year 1860 Calendar » Abraham Lincoln makes a Cooper Union Address speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York City New York that is largely responsible for his election to the President of the United States Presidency.
Year 1861 Calendar » Russian Empire known as Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
Year 1864 Calendar » American Civil War: The first Union (American Civil War) known as Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate States of America called Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
Year 1870 Calendar » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
Year 1881 Calendar » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
Year 1898 Calendar » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
Year 1900 Calendar » Second Boer War: In South Africa, United Kingdom or British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
Year 1900 » The Labour Party (UK) e.g British Labour Party is founded.
Year 1900 » FC Bayern Munich known as Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
Year 1921 Calendar » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
Year 1922 Calendar » A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in 'Leser v. Garnett'.
Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an American-British-Dutch-Australian Command or Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
Year 1943 Calendar » The Smith Mine disaster or Smith Mine 3 in Bearcreek, Montana known as Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
Year 1943 » The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
Year 1951 Calendar » The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting President of the United States or Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
Year 1961 Calendar » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
Year 1962 Calendar » Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing named bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Year 1963 Calendar » The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
Year 1964 Calendar » The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
Year 1971 Calendar » Doctors in the first Netherlands named Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform 'abortus provocatus known as aborti provocati'.
Year 1973 Calendar » The American Indian Movement (AIM) Wounded Knee incident or occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Year 1976 Calendar » The formerly Spain named Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Year 1986 Calendar » The United States Senate allows its debates to be television named televised on a trial basis.
Year 1988 Calendar » Sumgait pogrom: The Armenians called Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent massacre.
Year 1991 Calendar » Gulf War: President of the United States or U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
Year 1995 Calendar » Zakho: A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho leaves about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
Year 2002 Calendar » Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hinduism called Hindu prigrims.
Year 2004 Calendar » The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
Year 2007 Calendar » The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
Year 2010 Calendar » An 2010 Chile earthquake named earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
Year 2012 Calendar » A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapses in a 2012 Astrakhan gas explosion e.g natural gas explosion, killing 10 people and injuring at least 12 others.
Year 2013 Calendar » At least 19 people are killed when a 2013 Kolkata market fire or fire breaks out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India.
Year 2013 » 5 people (including the perpetrator) are killed and 5 others injured in a 2013 Menznau shooting called shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.