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

• Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
• Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.
• Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
• Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
• Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj.
• Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
• First Balkan War: King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.

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• Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
• Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
• Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
• Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed.
• Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen gentries who opposed Duke Charles were decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the power struggle between King Sigismund and Duke Charles and the related peasant revolt known as the Cudgel War.
• Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
• Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.
• English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
• The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
• A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
• Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.

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• Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
• Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people mostly noblemen.
• Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
• The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
• Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
• Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.
• The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
• The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.

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• Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' (amicitia) to recognize their borders along the Rhine.
• Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage.
• Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
• The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
• John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
• The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
• In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
• American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
• The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.

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• A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
• Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of an armed rebellion against Otto.
• The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.
• Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.
• Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race.
• In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
• President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Republicans also swept the congressional elections, winning increased majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
• Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.
• World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.
• Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television.
• Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ is appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
• The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

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• Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
• Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico.
• Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother - they would later marry.
• Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (which is nearly destroyed after three days).
• The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary.
• The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.
• The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
• Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
• Newport Rising: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
• Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.

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• A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
• Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
• The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
• Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
• North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
• World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
• The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
• The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
• In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

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• Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Conspirators place Nikephoros, the minister of finance, on the Byzantine throne.
• Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
• Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of the Mexican Empire.
• The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.
• Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
• The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
• Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States.

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• Arab-Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
• Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later.
• The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia.
• Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
• Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.
• War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.
• Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
• Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
• The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
• The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

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