Year 406 Calendar » Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
Year 535 Calendar » Byzantine Empire e.g Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogoths e.g Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
Year 1225 Calendar » The Lý Dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoàng, starting the Trần Dynasty.
Year 1229 Calendar » James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Majorca named Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca.
Year 1660 Calendar » James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
Year 1687 Calendar » The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
Year 1695 Calendar » A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.
Year 1757 Calendar » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Russian Prussia known as Königsberg into Russia.
Year 1759 Calendar » Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at Pound sterling named £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
Year 1775 Calendar » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec (1775) called Battle of Quebec: Kingdom of Great Britain or British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
Year 1790 Calendar » 'Efimeris', the oldest Greece known as Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today is published for the first time.
Year 1831 Calendar » Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City or New York, New York.
Year 1853 Calendar » A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London called London, England.
Year 1857 Calendar » Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
Year 1862 Calendar » American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Year 1862 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the United States known as Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
Year 1878 Calendar » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable Two-stroke engine e.g two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
Year 1879 Calendar » Thomas Edison demonstrates Incandescent light bulb called incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Edison, New Jersey e.g Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Year 1906 Calendar » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
Year 1923 Calendar » The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
Year 1944 Calendar » World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
Year 1944 » World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front (World War II) named Western Front begins.
Year 1946 Calendar » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
Year 1951 Calendar » The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than United States dollar e.g US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
Year 1955 Calendar » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
Year 1960 Calendar » The Farthing (British coin) called farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
Year 1963 Calendar » Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland named The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
Year 1967 Calendar » The Youth International Party, popularly known as the "Yippies", is founded.
Year 1983 Calendar » The AT&T Corporation or AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
Year 1986 Calendar » A Dupont Plaza Hotel arson e.g fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
Year 1988 Calendar » First Winter Ascent of Lhotse (8,516m) by Krzysztof Wielicki (solo).
Year 1991 Calendar » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
Year 1992 Calendar » Czechoslovakia is Dissolution of Czechoslovakia named peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the 'Velvet Divorce', resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Year 1994 Calendar » This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
Year 1998 Calendar » The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
Year 1999 Calendar » Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ended after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.
Year 1999 » The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
Year 1999 » First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister of Russia e.g Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
Year 2004 Calendar » The official opening of Taipei 101, the List of tallest buildings and structures in the world tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of convert 509 m ft.
Year 2009 Calendar » Both a blue moon and a December 2009 lunar eclipse or lunar eclipse occur.
Year 2011 Calendar » NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon.