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

Battle of Mogyoród: Turning Point in Hungarian History (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)


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A Daily Dose of History (14 Mar 2025) Today's historical events:
  • Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
  • Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
  • Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
  • According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion.
  • The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.
  • Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
  • American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
  • Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
  • The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
  • Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restriction on polygamy.
  • Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.

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