Constantinople: Capital Consecration & Christian Center (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (11 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Constantinople is consecrated.
A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement.
President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.
Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
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Edward I's Influence on Scottish History (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (10 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king.
Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
King Narai nominates Phetracha as regent, leading to the revolution of 1688 in which Phetracha becomes king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.
Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
War of the First Coalition: Napoleon wins a victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
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6:41
Legacy of Athanasius: Defender of Orthodoxy (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (09 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.
The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England.
Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
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10:39
Emperor Honorius' Tax Relief Edict for Devastated Provinces (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (08 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.
Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good).
Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her Revelations of Divine Love.
Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).
A newly nationalized silver mine in Scotland at Hilderston, West Lothian is re-opened by Bevis Bulmer.
William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island.
The Battle of Peshawar where the Marathas defeated Timur Shah Abdali (Durrani) and Peshawar was captured and annexed into the Maratha Empire thus extending the Maratha Empire to its farthest distance away from Pune that it ever reached - over 2000 km - almost to the borders of Afghanistan.
King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.
Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
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9:21
Jewish Revolt Against Constantius Gallus in 351 AD (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (07 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.
Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV of France's new Palace of Versailles.
Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.
Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace.
The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
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