The military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire |
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455 |
Thousands of lives are lost when a major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affects the
coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia |
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551 |
Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague |
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1357 |
Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves |
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1540 |
Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum |
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1572 |
The Braddock Expedition – a British attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh –
is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force |
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1755 |
Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III |
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1762 |
In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins to prepare
for a French constitution |
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1789 |
In the Battle of Svensksund – the largest naval battle ever fought in the Baltic Sea – the Swedish navy
captures one third of the Rusian fleet. The following day it would complete its greatest ever victory, bringing an end to the
Russo–;Swedish War |
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1790 |
The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves, and provides for the release of those who are
born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age. |
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1793 |
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire |
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1810 |
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France |
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1815 |
Argentina declares itself independent from Spain, at the Congress of Tucuman |
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1816 |
470 prominent Cypriots, including Archbishop Kyprianos (head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church), are executed in response
to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence |
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1821 |
US President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk, and is succeeded by Vice President Millard Fillmore |
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1850 |
At a sensational murder trial in Edinburgh, the case against 22–year–old Glasgow socialite Madeleine Hamilton
Smith for the murder of her secret lover Pierre Emile L'Angelier, a Channel Islander ten years her senior, is found 'not proven'
despite damning circumstantial evidence |
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1857 |
At the culmination of the Mount Lebanon (or Syrian) Civil War, the massacre of Christians by Druze and Sunni Muslim
paramilitary groups (with the connivance of the military authorities and Turkish soldiers) begins in Damascus; over the next three days, 25,000
would be killed |
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1860 |
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all
persons in the United States due process of law |
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1868 |
The Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule begins. It would last for three years and have far–reaching
implications throughout the Balkans |
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1875 |
The first All–England Tennis Championships begin at Wimbledon |
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1877 |
Paper napkins are used for the first time, at John Dickenson (Hastings)'s annual dinner |
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1887 |
The Federation of Australia (the process by which the six self–governing colonies would unite to form the
Commonwealth of Australia) is given royal assent |
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1900 |
German South–West Africa surrenders to General Smuts |
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1915 |
HMS Vanguard, a veteran of the Battle of Jutland, blows up in Scapa Flow with the loss of over 800 men |
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1917 |
101 lives are lost and 171 people are injured in the deadliest rail accident in US history, when an inbound local
train collides with an outbound express in Nashville, Tennessee |
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1918 |
Germany ratifies the Treaty of Versailles |
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1919 |
Johnny Weissmuller breaks the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier', completing the 100 metres freestyle
in 58.6 seconds |
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1922 |
Oonagh Keogh, 22, in Dublin, becomes the first female member of a stock exchange |
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1925 |
The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed in a fire |
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1937 |
Gas masks are issued to the general public in the UK |
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1938 |
Allied forces begin the invasion of Sicily, which would lead to the downfall of Mussolini and force Hitler to break off
the Battle of Kursk |
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1943 |
The Allies capture Caen in Normandy |
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1944 |
Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten announce their engagement |
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1947 |
US crime writer Dashiel Hammett is sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court, for refusing to testify before
the Un–American Activities Committee |
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1951 |
Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev heads off a coup attempt and banishes ex–prime minister Georgi Malenkov to Kazakhstan |
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1957 |
The first rhinoceros born in captivity is delivered in an Irish zoo |
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1969 |
The Bank of England issues £20 notes for the first time since 1945 |
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1970 |
The Bahamas achieves independence after more than 300 years of British rule |
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1972 |
Sandinista rebels overthrow General Somoza in Nicaragua |
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1979 |
Romanian–born Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld survive an assassination attempt when their car is destroyed
by a bomb outside their home in France |
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1979 |
Michael Fagan, an unemployed Irish father of four, breaks into Buckingham Palace and makes his way to the Queen's
bedroom, where he spends ten minutes talking to Her Maj before being arrested by a footman |
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1982 |
All 145 people on board, and eight others on the ground, lose their lives when Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner,
Louisiana |
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1982 |
The south transept of York Minster is destroyed in a lightning strike |
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1984 |
Homosexuality is legalised in New Zealand |
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1986 |
US President George Bush lands in Poland at the start of a tour of Europe |
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1989 |
Nairobi is closed down after three days of rioting |
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1990 |
15 miles of the Cumbrian coast are declared unsafe after items contaminated by radiation from Sellafield in 1983 are
washed up |
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1990 |
35 local councils, including Western Isles, Bury (Greater Manchester) and Bristol, lose investments when the Bank of
England forces the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) to shut its doors amid fraud allegations. A public inquiry would later
criticise councils for being careless with their funds, and a damages case against the Bank of England was dropped after the High Court ruled
that it was no longer in the best interest of creditors |
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1991 |
The Canadian Parliament passes the Nunavut Act, leading to the creation of Nunavut in 1999, dividing the Northwest
Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub–arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite |
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1993 |
During the Sri Lankan Civil War, around 125 Tamil civilians – men, women and children – lose their lives
when a Christian church in Navali (northern Sri Lanka), in which they had taken refuge from fighting, is bombed by by the Sri Lanka Air Force |
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1995 |
British Airways cabin staff begin a three–day strike over pay |
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1997 |
Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey unveils statues of ten modern Christian martyrs, including Martin Luther King,
Oscar Romero and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, on the west front of Westminster Abbey |
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1998 |
Jerry Hall agrees to an annulment of her 1990 marriage to Mick Jagger (they were married in a Hindu ceremony on Bali)
and an end to their 21–year relationship – in return for £10 million |
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1999 |
Elton John has a pacemaker fitted |
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1999 |
Romano Prodi (Italy) is announced as the new President of the European Commission; Neil Kinnock is one of two
Vice–Presidents and Chris Patten responsible for foreign affairs |
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1999 |
George Speight, leader of the Fijian coup, signs a deal with the military rulers, agreeing to release 27 hostages
(held in the parliament building for over seven weeks) in four days' time when tribal chiefs will meet to elect a new president and
vice–president |
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2000 |
Festus Moyae, president of Botswana, warns that AIDS threatens his people with extinction |
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2000 |
Stanford University's international team of physicists provide the most substantial proof yet that matter and
anti–matter decay at different rates, which explains the continued predominance of matter despite their equal prevalence at the time
of the Big Bang – which had previously seemed to mean that they should have cancelled each other out |
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2001 |
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU); Thabo Mbeki,
President of South Africa, is its first chairman |
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2002 |
Italy defeat France on penalties in the World Cup final, but Zinedine Zidane is sent off near the end of the 90 minutes
after reacting violently to something said to him by Italy's Marco Materazzi |
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2006 |
125 lives are lost when an Airbus A310 veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia |
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2006 |
South Sudan gains independence, seceding from Sudan |
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2011 |