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

• Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling sons, Caracalla and Geta, whom he had instructed to make peace.
• The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
• A strong earthquake strikes the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
• Thirteen Years' War: The Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, sparking the Thirteen Years' War.
• John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
• In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
• George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
• The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic. It would be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
• John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
• Napoleonic Wars: Britain seizes Guadeloupe.
• The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the two-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and two ships.
• The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
• The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.

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• Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
• Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
• The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
• Maratha forces under Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Umberkhind.
• The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
• During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
• American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
• A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
• The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
• José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.

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• Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
• The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.
• Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
• 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.
• The last of the River Thames frost fairs comes to an end.
• Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.

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• 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.
• Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
• Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
• 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.
• La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

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• Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
• 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.
• 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.
• American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery, and submits it to the states for ratification.
• History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.

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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.
• 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.
• 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.

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• The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession of his son Louis the Pious as ruler of the Frankish Empire.
• Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is lifted after he humbles himself before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Italy.
• Edward VI, the nine-year-old son of Henry VIII, becomes King of England on his father's death.
• The Edict of Torda prohibits the persecution of individuals on religious grounds in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
• Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
• Execution of Agnes Sampson, accused of witchcraft in Edinburgh.
• Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
• Original city of Panama (founded in 1519) is destroyed by a fire when privateer Henry Morgan sacks and sets fire to it. The site of the previously devastated city is still in ruins (see Panama Viejo).
• The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg, Russia, by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
• Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
• Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
• The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.

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• Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
• Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence.
• Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
• Spanish forces clash with indigenous Huilliches of southern Chile in the battle of Río Bueno.
• American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
• A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.

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• The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
• For the first time, the Ottoman Empire permanently cedes territory to the Christian powers.
• The 8.7-9.2 Mw Cascadia earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
• The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Celebrated as Australia Day.
• The Rum Rebellion is the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in New South Wales.
• Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
• James Bremer takes formal possession of Hong Kong Island at what is now Possession Point, establishing British Hong Kong.
• Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
• First Battle of Seattle: Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all-day battle with settlers.

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