History
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1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia 1854 - Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to…
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1016 - Cnut the Great [Canute], King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund 'Ironside'. 1648 - English…
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526 - A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people. 1745 -…
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1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean 1814 - The Times of London first printed by automatic, steam…
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1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade 1295 - English King Edward I calls what later became known as "The Model…
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43 BC - Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed 1778 -…
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1177 - Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem defeats Saladin and a larger Ayyubid force 1783 - Britain evacuates New York…
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380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople 1639 - 1st observation of transit of Venus by…
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1248 - Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates 1644 - "Areopagitica", a…
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1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India…
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164 BC - During Maccabbean revolt Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jersusalem and rededicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah 1620…
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284 - Roman soldier Diocletian proclaimed Emperor by the army 762 - Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the…