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

• The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
• King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
• The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
• Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France.
• The Thirteen Years' War between Poland and the Teutonic Order ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
• Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
• Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.
• The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities
• New Ross town in Ireland surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
• American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
• John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

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• Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
• The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun.
• The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
• Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
• Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
• In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, resulting in a draw.
• Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.

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• London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
• The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
• An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
• The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
• Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
• The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
• Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
• Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne.
• Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
• American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
• American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.

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• Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
• Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
• Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba.
• King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
• The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
• Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.[citation needed]
• Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.[citation needed]
• The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.

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• Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
• Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
• The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
• Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.
• Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
• American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
• American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
• The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
• World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.

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• Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
• In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
• Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. (Julian calendar)
• The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
• The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
• The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
• The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
• Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.

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• A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever.
• A peace treaty ends the Jin-Song wars.
• The New Netherland Company applies to the States General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in what is now the northeastern United States.
• The Burchardi flood kills around 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
• Cromwell's New Model Army sacks Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
• Surveying for the Mason-Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
• The Royal Navy decisively defeats the Batavian Navy at Camperdown during the French Revolutionary Wars.
• The Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottoman Empire and later is sent to Malta in exile.
• The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.

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• Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
• Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
• Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.
• Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.
• The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
• War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.
• In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.

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• James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
• The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
• The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
• Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
• Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
• Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
• The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
• Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
• Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
• Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.

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• The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins.
• Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
• Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban after the Battle of Bliska.
• The Great Stand on the Ugra River puts an end to Tartar rule over Moscow
• End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.
• Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.
• The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.
• The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence.

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