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

Earliest Mention of Lithuania in European History (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)


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A Daily Dose of History (09 Mar 2025) Today's historical events:
  • First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
  • Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
  • Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
  • The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
  • Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year occupation.
  • After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually died by suicide.
  • The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
  • Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
  • Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
  • Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
  • The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
  • Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
  • American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

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