A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

• Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.
• Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
• Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.
• Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
• Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda.
• Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross results in the death of Owen Tudor.
• Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Inverlochy.
• New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
• Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.

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• The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
• The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
• The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
• The Kalabalik or Skirmish at Bender results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
• French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
• Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
• Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
• American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States and joins the Confederacy a week later.
• Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
• President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
• Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.

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• Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
• The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the throne as King Eric X of Sweden.
• The Treaty of Lyon ends the Italian War, confirming French domination of northern Italy, while Spain receives the Kingdom of Naples.
• Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons.
• Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, are executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, for plotting against Parliament and King James.
• The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
• Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
• After the Milwaukee Bridge War, the United States towns of Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify to create the City of Milwaukee.
• John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
• Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.

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• King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
• An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
• Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
• Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London.
• Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
• The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
• Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
• Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
• The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
• In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
• Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
• The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.

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• Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
• Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
• War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
• "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
• Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
• Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.

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• Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
• Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
• First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.
• Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
• "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
• Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
• Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
• Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• Liliʻuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
• Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911.
• Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.

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• Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
• Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
• War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
• "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
• Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
• Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
• Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• Liliʻuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
• Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911.
• Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.

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• Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
• Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
• War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
• "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
• Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
• Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
• Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• Liliʻuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

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• After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
• In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.
• Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
• Coronation of Francis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral, where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne.
• Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
• São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests.
• Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
• Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
• Walter Raleigh is knighted, shortly after renaming North America region "Virginia", in honor of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
• The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
• Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
• Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.

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• Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
• The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
• Matthias Corvinus is elected King of Hungary.
• King Henry VIII of England suffers an accident while jousting, leading to a brain injury that historians say may have influenced his later erratic behaviour and possible impotence.
• Arauco War: Spanish and Mapuche authorities meet in the Parliament of Boroa renewing the fragile peace established at the parliaments of Quillín in 1641 and 1647.
• King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
• Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• During the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of Königsberg submit to Elizabeth of Russia, thus forming Russian Prussia (until 1763).
• Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the action of Picheuta.
• Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
• California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
• The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.

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