Battle of Megiddo – the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Decade
On This Day in History
No Events for this Date
Please check other dates or explore history below.
Recently Added Events
Pope Pelagius I is consecrated following Imperial approval by Emperor Justinian I.
📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL
Byzantine domination of the Roman papacy, 537 to 752
Pope Leo II is elected head of the Catholic Church
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Head of the Catholic Church from 682 to 683
The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 SPAIN
1520 rebellion in Castile, Spain
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 SPAIN
Spanish and Portuguese conquerors of the Age of Discovery
The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
1746 battle of the Jacobite rising of 1745
Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
German politician (1729–1810)
The Spithead mutiny begins
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Two mutinies by British sailors in 1797
The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
Upper house of the US Congress
The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 FRANCE
Land warfare force of France
Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 INDIA
Railway company in British India (1849–1951)
American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act
📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES
1862 U.S. federal law ending slavery in DC
American Civil War: Battle at Lee’s Mills in Virginia.
📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES
1861–1865 conflict in the United States
American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES
Military campaign of the American Civil War