Year 428 Calendar » Nestorius becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople e.g Patriarch of Constantinople.
Year 879 Calendar » Louis III of France or Louis III and Carloman II become joint List of French monarchs named Kings of the Western Franks.
Year 1407 Calendar » The lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".
Year 1500 Calendar » Ludovico Sforza is captured by Switzerland named Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
Year 1606 Calendar » The London Company called Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing British colonization of the Americas called colonial settlements in North America.
Year 1710 Calendar » The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Kingdom of Great Britain named Great Britain.
Year 1741 Calendar » War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats History of Austria Charles VI and Maria Theresa (1711–1780) e.g Austria at the Battle of Mollwitz.
Year 1809 Calendar » Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
Year 1816 Calendar » The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
Year 1821 Calendar » Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman Empire e.g Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
Year 1856 Calendar » The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University in Vermont.
Year 1858 Calendar » After the original Big Ben, a Convert 14.5 tonne lb bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current convert 13.76 tonne lb bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
Year 1864 Calendar » Archduke maximilian I of Mexico known as Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
Year 1866 Calendar » The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
Year 1868 Calendar » At Arogee in Ethiopia known as Abyssinia, British and Indian forces British Expedition to Abyssinia e.g defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.
Year 1887 Calendar » On Easter e.g Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
Year 1904 Calendar » British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of 'The Book of the Law'.
Year 1912 Calendar » 'RMS Titanic' sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
Year 1919 Calendar » Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
Year 1944 Calendar » Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp or Birkenau death camp.
Year 1953 Calendar » Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled 'House of Wax (1953 film) called House of Wax'.
Year 1957 Calendar » The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
Year 1959 Calendar » Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Empress Michiko of Japan named Michiko.
Year 1963 Calendar » One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher SSN-593 6 sinks at sea.
Year 1968 Calendar » New Zealand inter-island ferry ship called TEV e.g Wahine founders and sinks at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
Year 1970 Calendar » Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
Year 1972 Calendar » Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
Year 1972 » Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 Stratofortress known as B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
Year 1972 » Twenty days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.
Year 1973 Calendar » A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashes in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people.
Year 1979 Calendar » 1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak e.g Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
Year 1988 Calendar » The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast.
Year 1991 Calendar » A South Atlantic tropical cyclone rare tropical cyclone tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by weather satellite satellites.
Year 1991 » Italian ferry ship MS Moby Prince 6 collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
Year 2009 Calendar » President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the Constitution of Fiji known as constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis called constitutional crisis.
Year 2010 Calendar » Polish Air Force Tu-154M 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash called crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials
Year 2014 Calendar » Kathleen Sebelius resigns as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in light of fallout from the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov.