A Daily Dose of History (06 Apr 2025) Today's historical events:

• The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
• Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople. The city falls on May 29, and is renamed Istanbul.
• One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
• At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
• The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
• American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
• King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.
• During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
• John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
• British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.

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