Year 1184 Calendar » Traditional date of the Trojan War The Sack of Troy e.g fall of Troy.
Year 1479 Calendar » Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Ancient Egypt called Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
Year 1547 Calendar » Battle of Mühlberg. Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba e.g Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor or Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
Year 1558 Calendar » Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, Francis II of France called François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
Year 1704 Calendar » The first regular newspaper in 13 colonies or British Colonial America, the 'News-Letter', is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
Year 1800 Calendar » The United States Library of Congress is established when President of the United States President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 United States dollar USD to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress of the Unite
Year 1877 Calendar » Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878 or Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
Year 1895 Calendar » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
Year 1904 Calendar » The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
Year 1907 Calendar » Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
Year 1913 Calendar » The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
Year 1914 Calendar » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of Introduction to quantum mechanics named quantum mechanics, is presented to the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft or German Physical Society.
Year 1915 Calendar » The arrest of Armenian notables deported from the Ottoman capital in 1915 called 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
Year 1916 Calendar » Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalism e.g nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
Year 1916 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship ship Endurance 1912 ship 2.
Year 1918 Calendar » First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IV tank called Mark IVs meet three Germany or German A7Vs.
Year 1922 Calendar » The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
Year 1926 Calendar » The Treaty of Berlin (1926) e.g Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
Year 1932 Calendar » Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
Year 1953 Calendar » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen regnant called Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom e.g Elizabeth II.
Year 1955 Calendar » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
Year 1957 Calendar » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of United Nations Emergency Force named UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
Year 1957 » The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore
Year 1963 Calendar » Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy named Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
Year 1967 Calendar » Astronaut e.g Cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov known as Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
Year 1967 » Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
Year 1968 Calendar » Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
Year 1970 Calendar » The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first Heads of State of The Gambia known as President.
Year 1980 Calendar » Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
Year 1990 Calendar » STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle program Space Shuttle 'Space Shuttle Discovery Discovery'. File:STS-31 Launch - GPN-2000-000684.jpg thumb right 250px Shuttle mission STS-31 lifts off, carrying Hubble Space Telescope H
Year 1990 » Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
Year 1993 Calendar » An Provisional Irish Republican Army e.g IRA 1993 Bishopsgate bombing or bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
Year 1996 Calendar » In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
Year 2005 Calendar » Cardinal (Catholicism) known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is Papal Inauguration named inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Year 2013 Calendar » A 2013 Savar building collapse called building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.