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

Battle of Nocera: Roger II vs. Ranulf II (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)


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A Daily Dose of History (24 Jul 2025) Today's historical events:
  • Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
  • Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
  • Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
  • Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
  • Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.
  • Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
  • French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
  • Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her one-year-old son James VI.
  • Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
  • The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
  • War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
  • Afro-Chileans are emancipated.
  • In Maracaibo, Venezuela, the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
  • After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.

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