A Daily Dose of History (11 Jan 2024) Today's historical events:

• Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia.
• Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile.
• A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
• The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
• William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• The Michigan Territory is created.
• American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
• American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.

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