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Petra, and marches to Armenia. The Persians, lacking sufficient supplies, secure the supply routes and plunder Lazica. Africa Spring – Battle of the Fields of Cato: The Byzantine army, under John Troglita, crushes the Moorish revolt in Byzacena (Tunisia). Asia April 13 – Emperor Lý Nam Đế of Vietnam is killed by Laotia... | after King Theudis is assassinated. Persia Lazic War: King Gubazes II revolts against the Persians, and requests aid from Justinian I. He sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (8,000 men) to Lazica (modern Georgia). Gubazes II besieges the fortress of Petra, located on the Black Sea. The Persian army under Mermeroes de... |
by a group of conspirators during a banquet in Seville. Persia Spring – Lazic War: The Byzantine army under Bessas combines forces with King Gubazes II, and defeats the Persians in Lazica (modern Georgia) in a surprise attack. The survivors retreat into Caucasian Iberia. The Romans unsuccessfully besiege Petra, Lazica.... | time, after Belisarius has returned to Constantinople. He offers a peace agreement, but this is rejected by Emperor Justinian I. Totila conquers the city of Perugia (Central Italy) and stations a Gothic garrison. He takes bishop Herculanus prisoner, and orders him to be completely flayed. The Ostrogoth soldier asked to... |
Seville (Andalusia), and Agila is defeated. 12,000 Kutrigurs appear in Europe led by Chinialus and others to assist the Gepids. Persia Spring – Lazic War - Siege of Petra (550–551): The Byzantine army and their Sabir allies (some 6,000 men) under Bessas recapture the strategic Byzantine fortress of Petra, located on th... | avoid a direct confrontation, Narses skirts the lagoons along the Adriatic shore, by using vessels to leapfrog his army from point to point along the coast. In this way he arrives at the capital Ravenna without encountering any opposition. He attacks and crushes a small Gothic force at Ariminum (modern Rimini). Spring-... |
a hopeless last stand for two days (south of Naples), and Teia is killed in the fightings. Aligern escapes, but surrenders a few months later. The Ostrogothic Kingdom ends after 60 years of rule in Italy. The Goths are allowed to return to their homes in peace and (re)settle in modern-day Austria. Some 7,000 people ret... | Byzantine force at Parma, and are joined by remnants of the Gothic armies, bringing the total strength of the invaders to about 90,000 men. Narses, gathering his forces as quickly as possible, marches north to harass the Franks, but is not strong enough to engage them in battle. In Samnium (Southern Italy) the brothers... |
the Byzantine military staff after accusing them of incompetence. Asia Chinese Liang Dynasty: Jing Di, age 12, succeeds his father Yuan Di and is declared emperor by general Chen Baxian. The Rouran Khaganate ends; it is defeated by the Göktürks under Muqan Qaghan, who expands his rule in Central Asia. By topic Arts and... | siege of a Persian-held fortress, and is murdered by the Byzantine military staff after accusing them of incompetence. Asia Chinese Liang Dynasty: Jing Di, age 12, succeeds his father Yuan Di and is declared emperor by general Chen Baxian. The Rouran Khaganate ends; it is defeated by the Göktürks under Muqan Qaghan, wh... |
the establishment of a 50 year peace agreement in 562. By topic Religion April 16 – The diplomatic representative (apocrisiarius) to Constantinople is elected as Pope Pelagius I, succeeding Vigilius as the 60th pope of Rome. Births Gao Bainian, crown prince of Northern Qi (d. 564) Amr Ibn Hashim, Arab pagan chieftain, ... | prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Europe King Chlothar I suppresses a revolt of the Saxons and Thuringii in Saxony (Germany). For some time he exacts a tribute of 500 cows every year. Britain King Cynric and his son Ceawlin of Wessex fight against the Britons at Beranburh, now identified as B... |
in Southern China. The Göktürks under Muqan Qaghan ally with the Persian Empire, and destroy the Hephthalites (White Huns) in Central Asia. By topic Religion King Chlothar I of the Franks founds the Abbey of St. Medard at Soissons (Northern France). The Jiming Temple in Nanjing is built; the Buddhist pagoda is located ... | Constantinople earthquake occurs. Asia The Western Wei Dynasty ends: Yuwen Hu deposes emperor Gong Di, and places Yuwen Tai's son Xiaomin on the throne. Yuwen Hu becomes regent and establishes the Northern Zhou dynasty in China. Ming Di is made emperor, after his younger brother Xiao Min Di is arrested while trying to ... |
(mayor of the palace of Austrasia), requests on her deathbed a burial wearing a plain linen shroud. This is the traditional (pagan) practice of a 'furnished' grave. Leodegar, an opponent of Ebroin (mayor of the palace), is appointed bishop of Autun in Burgundy. Births Ali ibn Husayn Zayn, great-grandson of Muhammad and... | 17 – Gertrude of Nivelles, daughter of Pepin of Landen (mayor of the palace of Austrasia), requests on her deathbed a burial wearing a plain linen shroud. This is the traditional (pagan) practice of a 'furnished' grave. Leodegar, an opponent of Ebroin (mayor of the palace), is appointed bishop of Autun in Burgundy. Bir... |
township there is appointed an elder. The houses are all associated in groups of five for mutual protection, with one elder to supervise them one with another. This system prevails until the era of World War II. The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda is constructed in Chang'an (modern Xi'an), during the Tang Dynasty (China). It i... | year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 652 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Europe King Rothari dies after a 16-year reign... |
of Dorestad, Paris and Orléans. Others sail up the Oise River, ravaging Beauvais and the abbey of Saint-Germer-de-Fly (approximate date). Viking chieftain Rorik, with the agreement of King Lothair II, leaves Dorestad with a fleet and forces his rival Horik II to recognise him as ruler over Denmark (approximate date). B... | Bald acknowledges Salomon as the rightful 'king' of Brittany. A Danish Viking fleet raids the cities of Dorestad, Paris and Orléans. Others sail up the Oise River, ravaging Beauvais and the abbey of Saint-Germer-de-Fly (approximate date). Viking chieftain Rorik, with the agreement of King Lothair II, leaves Dorestad wi... |
Belisarius stands trial for corruption in Constantinople, possibly with Procopius acting as praefectus urbi. He is found guilty and sent to prison. End of the Lazic War: In the Fifty-Year Peace Treaty, King Khosrau I recognises Lazica as a Byzantine vassal state for an annual payment of 5,000 pounds of gold each year. ... | praefectus urbi. He is found guilty and sent to prison. End of the Lazic War: In the Fifty-Year Peace Treaty, King Khosrau I recognises Lazica as a Byzantine vassal state for an annual payment of 5,000 pounds of gold each year. December 23 – Justinian I re-consecrates Hagia Sophia after its dome is rebuilt. Paul the Si... |
seeing the Loch Ness Monster at the River Ness (according to the "Life of St. Columba"). Mesoamerica Tulum, Maya walled city, on the Yucatán Peninsula (modern Mexico) is first mentioned on a stele inscription. By topic Religion Samson of Dol, one of seven founder saints of Brittany, attends a council in Paris and witne... | 564 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Britain Cadoc, abbot of Llancarfan (Wales), settles in Weedon and is made bishop (approximate date). August 22 – Columba reports seeing the Loch Ness... |
since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Byzantine Empire November 15 – Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He begins his reign by refusing subsidies to the Avars, who conduct sever... | between Alboin, the king of the Lombards, and King Cunimund, the leader of the Gepids. (approximate date). Asia Gao Wei succeeds his father Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty. Wu Cheng Di becomes a regent and Grand Emperor. The Uyghurs are defeated by the Göktürks, who expand their territory in Cen... |
is murdered in his sleep, and his head is cut off and brought to Constantinople (probably by assignment of Empress Sophia). Europe Ainmuire mac Sétnai becomes High King of Ireland, and rules from 566–569 (this according to the Book of Leinster). Francia A poet from Italy named Venantius Fortunatus arrives at the Merovi... | after the Roman Empire disintegrated in Gaul in the late 5th century. Asia Fei Di, age 12, succeeds his father Wen Di, as emperor of the Chinese Chen Dynasty. He honors his grand-aunt Zhang Yao'er with the title of Grand Empress, and she becomes his regent. Kirtivarman I succeeds his father Pulakeshin I as king of the ... |
Charibert I dies without an heir; his realm (region Neustria and Aquitaine) is divided between his brothers Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I. Liuva I succeeds his predecessor Athanagild after an interregnum of five months and becomes king of the Visigoths. China Three Disasters of Wu: Emperor Wu Di of the Northern Z... | dynasty initiates the second persecution of Buddhists in China. This persecution continues until he is succeeded by his son Emperor Xuan. By topic Religion The Second Council of Tours is held. It decrees that any cleric found in bed with his wife will be excommunicated. John III, patriarch of Constantinople, organizes ... |
city of Garama is converted to Christianity. Europe September – The Lombards conquer Forum Iulii (Cividale del Friuli) in northeastern Italy. Later in the year, the Lombards conquer Milan. Gisulf I, nephew of Alboin, is appointed as the first duke of Friuli (approximate date). Arabia Al-Mundhir III succeeds his father ... | Christianity. Europe September – The Lombards conquer Forum Iulii (Cividale del Friuli) in northeastern Italy. Later in the year, the Lombards conquer Milan. Gisulf I, nephew of Alboin, is appointed as the first duke of Friuli (approximate date). Arabia Al-Mundhir III succeeds his father Al-Harith V and becomes king of... |
Dukes). The Visigoths under King Liuvigild invade Cantabria (Northern Spain), and destroy the city of Amaya (Burgos). He massacres the inhabitants and adds the province to the Visigothic Kingdom. Áedán mac Gabráin becomes king of Dál Riata (Scotland) (approximate Date). Asia The Persian Empire overthrows the Axumite- a... | the Mesopotamian front; in the Caucasus, war continues. Europe King Cleph is murdered after an 18-month reign by a guard, a slave who he has mistreated. For the next decade, the Lombard Kingdom is governed by independent duchies (Rule of the Dukes). The Visigoths under King Liuvigild invade Cantabria (Northern Spain), ... |
Asia Emperor Xuan Di abdicates the throne to his son Jing Di, age 6, and rules as regent the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Jinpyeong becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Silla. By topic Religion July 30 – Pope Benedict I dies after a 4-year reign, and is succeeded by Pelagius II as the 63rd pope. During the Lombard siege of ... | reign, during which he has extended his realm from the River Oxus to the Red Sea. He is succeeded by his son Hormizd IV, who becomes king of the Persian Empire. Summer – Hormizd IV refuses to give up territories, and breaks off negotiations with the Byzantine Empire. The Türks invade Khorasan and reach Hyrcania on the ... |
Æthelberht succeeds his father Eormenric as king (bretwalda) of Kent (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). Siege of Lindisfarne: A Brythonic coalition lays siege to King Hussa of Bernicia at Lindisfarne Castle (Holy Island). Owain mab Urien succeeds his father Urien, as Brythonic king of Rheged in Northern England ... | of Maurice, is proclaimed as co-emperor. He becomes his father's heir to the Byzantine throne. Stephen I succeeds his father Guaram I as king of Iberia (Georgia) (approximate date). Europe The Franks and Burgundians under King Guntram invade Italy. They capture the cities Milan and Verona, but are forced to leave by a ... |
and Sedition Acts, the Sedition Act of 1798 is signed into law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. July 16 – The Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen Act is signed into law, creating the Marine Hospital Service, the forerunner to the cur... | July 24 – Napoleon occupies Cairo. July 31 – A second round of elections are held in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic); no general elections this time. August 1 – Battle of the Nile (near Abu Qir): Lord Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys. 11 of the 13 French battleships are captured or destroyed, inc... |
A meteorite falls at Wold Newton, a hamlet in Yorkshire in England. This meteorite fall is subsequently used as a literary premise by science fiction writer Philip José Farmer, as the basis for the Wold Newton family. December 28 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, be... | marshal (d. 1875) August 25 – Luis José de Orbegoso, Peruvian general and politician, 11th and 12th President of Peru (d. 1847) August 27 – Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (d. 1885) September 1 – James Gordon Bennett, American newspaper publisher (d. 1872) September 6 – Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Marshal of Fra... |
Johnson, American philosopher (d. 1867) June 13 – Winfield Scott, American general, Presidential candidate (d. 1866) August 17 Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (d. 1836) Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861) August 25 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868) August 31 – Michel Eu... | Philadelphia Convention to draft a national constitution. September 14 – Connecticut cedes to the United States all of its claims to lands between the 41st and 42nd parallels north and west of the Connecticut Western Reserve. September 26 – Eden Agreement: A commercial treaty is signed between the Kingdoms of Great Bri... |
applied to the continent west of the Mississippi River. June 3 – The Continental Navy is disbanded. June 15 – After several attempts, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and his companion, Pierre Romain, set off in a balloon from Boulogne-sur-Mer, but the balloon suddenly deflates (without the envelope catching fire) and c... | Lee is elected as President of the U.S. Congress of the Confederation. January 20 – Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút: Invading Siamese forces, attempting to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River, by the Tây Sơn. January 27 – The University of Georgia in the United States is... |
"determining the functions and prerogatives of their respective consuls, vice consuls, agents, and commissaries". August 13 – The East India Company Act, sponsored by British Prime Minister William Pitt is given royal assent. August 15 – Cardinal de Rohan is called before the French court to account for his actions, in... | as 300,000 die of starvation. A huge locust swarm hits South Africa. Foundation of the first theater in Estonia, the Tallinna saksa teater. Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles. Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight. Antoine Lavo... |
plans of West Point to Major John André. Three days later, André is captured, with papers revealing that Arnold was planning to surrender West Point to the British. September 25 – Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York. September 29 The Danish ship-of-the-line Printz Friderich ran aground on the Kobbergrund sho... | American Revolutionary War: Spanish admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova captures a British convoy totalling 55 vessels amongst Indiamen, frigates and other cargo ships off Cape St. Vincent. August 24 – Louis XVI of France abolishes the use of torture in extracting confessions. September 21 – Benedict Arnold gives detaile... |
Gorgias, the sophist and rhetorician. Leontini is being threatened by Syracuse which is allied to Sparta. However, the Athenian mission led by the Athenian general Laches is unable to offer much help. Laches is later prosecuted by Cleon for his unsuccessful mission to support Athenian interests in Sicily. Roman Republi... | in which the Athenians and the Spartans have interfered ineffectually, results in a victory of the democrats (who support an alliance with Athens) over the oligarchs. In an effort to blockade Sparta from access to Sicilian corn, Athens responds to a plea for help from a delegation from the city of Leontini led by Gorgi... |
calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Venno and Torquatus (or, less frequently, year 407 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 347 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events B... | Coinage is introduced into Rome for the first time. By topic Philosophy Plato dies and his nephew Speusippus is named as head of the Academy. Aristotle leaves Athens due to the anti-Macedonian feeling that arises in Athens after Philip II of Macedon has sacked the Greek city-state of Olynthus in 348 BC. With him goes a... |
democratic faction in the city. The Athenians, under their general Tolmides, with 1000 hoplites plus other troops from their allies, march into Boeotia to take back the towns revolting against Athenian control. They capture Chaeronea, but are attacked and defeated by the Boeotians at Coronea. As a result, the Athenians... | Thracian peninsula of Gallipoli, in order to establish Athenian colonists in the region. Thus Pericles starts a policy of cleruchy (klerouchos) or "out-settlements". This is a form of colonisation where poor and unemployed people are assisted to emigrate to new regions. A revolt breaks out in Boeotia as the oligarchs o... |
majority of the League members vote to declare that the Athenians had broken the peace. The Athenian admiral, Phormio, continues the siege of Potidaea by blocking the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. Meanwhile an Athenian fleet, led by Archestratus, sails for Potidaea. However, instead of attacking Potidaea, they attac... | of Corinth. Meanwhile an Athenian fleet, led by Archestratus, sails for Potidaea. However, instead of attacking Potidaea, they attack the Macedonians under Perdiccas II, who have allied with the Potidaeans. The Athenians capture Therma (modern Thessalonica) and then go on to besiege Pydna. However, as the Athenians are... |
German astronomer (d. 1761) February 21 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808) February 23 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791) March 22 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer, Continental Congressman (d. 1783) March 25 – Catharina Mulder, Dutch organist (d. 1798) March 31 – King Frederick V of Denmark... | Carolina, as the Port of Beaufort, making it the third incorporated town in the province. Births January 5 – Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer, mathematician (d. 1788) January 11 – Prithvi Narayan Shah, First Monarch of Nepal (d. 1775) January 12 – Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (d. 1797... |
an ailing aristocrat. Over the next two weeks, rioting breaks out in other sections of Paris. Police are attacked, including one who is beaten to death by the mob, until order is restored and police reforms are announced. June 19 – At a time when mountain climbing is still relatively uncommon, Eggert Ólafsson and Bjarn... | Marquis de Puisieulx and Netherlands ambassador to Paris Mattheus Lestevenon, sends a letter that ultimately persuades the States-General of the Dutch Republic to allow and partially finance Lacaille's stellar trigonometry mission to the Cape of Good Hope. The expedition departs Lorient on October 21 Thomas Maclear, Ve... |
wearing "a mass of finely-wrought and artistic gems and jewels" and two coins, one dating from 350 BC and the other from 332 BC. The tomb will remain unopened for more than 22 centuries, until French archaeologist Jacques de Morgan unearths it on February 10, 1901. Macedonia Alexander the Great occupies Damascus and, a... | frequently, year 422 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 332 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Persian Empire The Persian King Darius III twice sends on horseback to Alexander letters o... |
the period 49 BC – 40 BC. Significant people Julius Caesar, Roman dictator (lived 100–44 BC, term 46–44 BC) Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman politician (85–42 BC) Mark | Cleopatra VII of Egypt (lived 70/69–30 BC, reigned 51–30 BC)—enters her twenties, has son Caesarion with Julius Caesar, before meeting Mark Antony Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus, Roman politician and general (62 BC–AD 14) Pharaoh Ptolemy XV |
early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place and Date Roman Republic Consuls: Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus, Gaius Claudius Marcellus. Caesar's Civil War commences: January 1 – The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar th... | initiates a civil war. In response, the Senate invokes the senatus consultum ultimum. February – Pompey's flight to Epirus (in Western Greece) with most of the Senate. March 9 – Caesar advances against Pompeian forces in Spain. April 19 – Siege of Massilia: Caesar commences a siege at Massilia against the Pompeian Luci... |
VII of Egypt (lived 70/69–30 BC, reigned 51–30 BC)—meets Julius Caesar and later becomes teenager Pharaoh, after her brothers die young. Pompey, Roman general (lived 106 BC–48 BC) Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman politician and general | (lived 115–53 BC) Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman politician (lived 106–43 BC) Vercingetorix, Chieftain of the Arverni (d. 46 BC) Cassivellaunus, British war-leader Ariovistus, German king Commius, Gaulish king Phraates III, King of Parthia (reigned 70–57 BC) Mithridates III, king of Parthia and Media (reigned 57–54 BC) O... |
Confederation. General John Cadwalader shoots and seriously wounds Major General Thomas Conway in a duel after a dispute between the two officers over Conway's continued criticism of General George Washington's leadership of the Continental Army. February 6 – American Revolutionary War – In Paris, the Treaty of Allianc... | Marquess of Londonderry, British politician (d. 1854) May 19 Ruggero Settimo, Italian politician (d. 1863) Ludwik Michał Pac, Polish general (d. 1835) May 25 – Claus Harms, German clergyman, theologian (d. 1855) May 29 – Charles Kemeys Kemeys Tynte, British politician (d. 1860) May 30 – Richard Skinner, American politi... |
7 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (d. 1850) January 11 – Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant, rebel leader (d. 1837) January 13 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820) January 25 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor (d.1848) February 3 – John Cheyne, British physician, surgeon... | August 22 – American Revolutionary War – The Siege of Fort Stanwix is ended by withdrawal of British forces, following a ruse by Benedict Arnold to persuade them that a much larger force is arriving. September 3 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cooch's Bridge: British and Hessian forces defeat an American milit... |
26 – American Revolution: George III announces to Parliament that the American colonies are in an uprising and must be dealt with accordingly. November – American Revolution: Colonel Richard Richardson's South Carolina revolutionaries march through Ninety-Six District in what becomes known as the Snow Campaign, effecti... | what becomes known as the Snow Campaign, effectively ending all major support for the Loyalist cause in the backcountry of South Carolina. November 7 – American Revolution: John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, British royal governor of the Colony of Virginia, signs Dunmore's Proclamation, declaring martial law and offerin... |
Venatici. October 14 – The Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission for the Education of the People), formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, is considered to be the world's first ministry of education. November 10 – Four ships— the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, the Beaver and the William— depart Britain for A... | Revere marries Rachel Walker, his second wife. October 12 – America's first insane asylum opens, for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds, in Williamsburg, Virginia. October 13 – French astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand design spiral galaxy located at a distance of appro... |
is first discovered by French astronomer Jacques Leibax Montaigne, but not proven to be a periodic comet until 1826, when Wilhelm von Biela correctly identifies its return. March 20 – Pedro Fages, the Spanish Governor of Alta California, and Father Juan Crespí set off from the capital at Monterey with a party of 12 sol... | but not proven to be a periodic comet until 1826, when Wilhelm von Biela correctly identifies its return. March 20 – Pedro Fages, the Spanish Governor of Alta California, and Father Juan Crespí set off from the capital at Monterey with a party of 12 soldiers, and begin the first European exploration of the lands around... |
the first of the 21 California missions. July 20 – Recently appointed as the Governor of Spanish Louisiana, Irish-born soldier of fortune Alejandro O'Reilly sails into the French fort of La Balize with 21 Spanish ships, along with 2,056 soldiers, cannons and ammunition, and informs French Louisiana Governor Charles Phi... | – Pope Clement XIII dies the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits. February 17 – The British House of Commons votes to not allow MP John Wilkes to take his seat after he wins a by-election. March 16 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo, following a three-year circumnavigation of the ... |
protectorate of the Russian Empire. February 27 – The first Secretary of State for the Colonies is appointed in Britain, the Earl of Hillsborough. February 29 – Five days after the signing of the treaty, a group of the szlachta, Polish nobles, establishes the Bar Confederation, to defend the internal and external indep... | of martial law to prevent civil unrest. February 24 – With Russian troops occupying the nation, opposition legislators of the national legislature having been deported, the government of Poland signs a treaty virtually turning the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into a protectorate of the Russian Empire. February 27 – T... |
Governor Pedro Zelaya. Rather than seeking retribution from the Quito citizens over their insurrection that has broken the monopoly over the sale of the liquor aguardiente, Zeleaya oversees a program of reconciliation. September 13 – The position of Patriarch of the Serbs, established on April 9, 1346 as the authority ... | the plantation owned by Joseph-Gaspard de La Pagerie, the father of the future French Empress Joséphine. September 1 – The revolt in Quito (at this time part of Spain's Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada; the modern-day capital of Ecuador) is ended peacefully as royal forces enter the city under the command of Guayaquil Gove... |
– French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war, and France cedes Canada (New France) to Great Britain. February 15 – The Treaty of Hubertusburg puts an end to the Seven Years' War between Prussia and Austria, and their allies France and Russia. February 23 – The Berbice Slave Uprising starts in the former Du... | (d. 1813) June 20 – Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot (d. 1798) June 23 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814) July 17 – John Jacob Astor, German-born American entrepreneur (d. 1848) August 5 – Bill Richmond, British boxer (d. 1829) August 13 – Christoph Johann von Medem, German courtier (d. 1838) Aug... |
King Louis XV of France, as well as representatives of members of the House of Bourbon, King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Philip, Duke of Parma. August 29 – Cherokee leader Attakullakulla and British Army Major James Grant meet at Fort Prince George in South Carolina and begin negotiations to end the Anglo-Cherokee War. ... | the American Indian tribes. November 19 – A separate peace treaty is signed between the Cherokee Indians and the Colony of Virginia, bringing the Anglo-Cherokee War to a close. November 26 – A 500-man force from the Army of Spain brings the revolt of Mexico's Maya population to an end, capturing the Yucatan village of ... |
is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city in the following month. August 30 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Legnica – By a series of brilliant maneuvers, Frederick the Great manages to defeat the Austrian army of Marshal Laudon before it can unite with that of Marshal Daun. September 8 – Seven Years... | it can reach North America. April 20 – France's Marshal François Gaston de Lévis departs from Montreal up the St. Lawrence River with 7,000 troops on a plan to retake Quebec City from the British. April 22 – Belgian entertainer Joseph Mervin is said to have given the first demonstration of roller skates, in a performan... |
Spain becomes the first person to have a successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ. November 26–29 – Members of Lashkar-e-Taiba carry out four days of coordinated bombing and shooting attacks across Mumbai, killing 164 people. December December 5 – Human remains found in 1991 are identified as Tsar ... | – Georgia invades the breakaway state of South Ossetia, sparking a war with Russia as the latter intervenes in support of separatists in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia. August 8–24 – The 2008 Summer Olympics take place in Beijing, China. August 20 – Spanair Flight 5022 crashes at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 154 pe... |
British-controlled Halifax toward the St. Lawrence River to prepare the invasion of French Quebec. June 15 – The first vascular surgery in history is performed by a Dr. Hallowell (whose first name has been lost to history) at Newcastle upon Tyne, who used suture repair rather than a tying off with a ligature to repair ... | Finck. November 25 – Near East earthquakes of 1759: The second and stronger event in an earthquake doublet occurs to the east of Beirut, with a surface wave magnitude of 7.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying all the villages in the Beqaa Valley. November 29 – Alamgir II, the Mughal Emperor of... |
not to advance further into the Iroquois territory. September 18 – Britain's Board of Trade sends a directive to the colonial and provincial governors of Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania ordering them to send delegates to a summit meeting with the Iroquois Confederacy. The ... | Russian Academy of Sciences announces a competition among chemists and physicists to provide "the best explanation of the true causes of electricity including their theory", with a deadline of June 1, 1755 (on the Julian calendar used in Russia, June 12 on the Gregorian calendar used in Western Europe and the New World... |
colony in Georgia has an elected legislature after having been administered by a corporate Board of Trustees since its founding in 1732. The original Georgia Assembly meets in Savannah with 16 representatives as the colony prepares to become a British colonial province. After electing Francis Harris as the Speaker of t... | George Washington becomes seriously ill with smallpox while he and his older brother Lawrence are visiting the island of Barbados during an epidemic Washington, 19 years old, survives the virus but is bedridden for almost a month. November 17 – The Pima Revolt begins in the area that now includes the Mexican state of S... |
Gaius Antonius Hybrida, elected praetor in 66 BC Cleopatra VII is born (69 BC–30 BC) and grows into a young | 69 BC – 60 BC. Significant people Pompey, Roman general, (lived 106 BC–48 BC) Mithridates |
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nobleman (b. 1602) March 1 Marzio Ginetti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1585) Leopold Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Imperial Field Marshal (b. 1626) March 7 – Antonio de la Cerda, 7th Duke of Medinaceli, Grandee of Spain (b. 1607) March 15 – Axel Urup, Danish general (b. 1601) March 31 – Anne Hyde, wife of the fut... | of then sovereign Assam. April 2 – In Rome, Pope Clement X canonizes Rose of Lima, making her the first Catholic saint of the Americas. May 9 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught, because he is too drunk to ... |
year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Greece Darius I sends an expedition, under Artaphernes and Datis the Mede, across the Aegean to attack the Athenians and the Eretrians. Hippias, the aged ex-tyran... | I sends an expedition, under Artaphernes and Datis the Mede, across the Aegean to attack the Athenians and the Eretrians. Hippias, the aged ex-tyrant of Athens, is on one of the Persian ships in the hope of being restored to power in Athens. When the Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor rebelled against Persia in 499 BC, Eretri... |
survived the encounter. This could mean only one thing: Judge Death was back. This set up the latest six-month epic, "Necropolis". After Dredd had left, Justice Department had put Kraken through one final test, and given him Dredd's badge. But the Sisters of Death, spirit beings from Judge Death's dimension, were able ... | most memorable villains Wagner had yet devised, but suffered the same mortality problem that had plagued the strip so far. All of them were killed during the course of the story, however the Mean Machine, was later resurrected by Krysler during "Destiny's Angels". "The Judge Child" was drawn by Bolland, Ron Smith and M... |
servicing, for which attaching or detaching at all four corners simultaneously would pose a problem, is often not mounted directly onto the rack but instead is mounted via rails (or slides). A pair of rails is mounted directly onto the rack, and the equipment then slides into the rack along the rails, which support it.... | at the rear of the rack. A handle may be provided at the rear of the server rails, to help pull or push the server without having to pull on the cables. When there is a large number of computers in a single rack, it is impractical for each one to have its own separate keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Instead, a KVM switch... |
Brochmand, Danish bishop (d. 1652) August 25 – Giovanni Biliverti, Italian painter (d. 1644) August 26 – Peter Lauremberg, German writer and professor (d. 1639) September 9 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman and 4th Prime Minister of France (d. 1642) September 15 – Ottavio Vannini, Italian p... | August 5 – Jesper Brochmand, Danish bishop (d. 1652) August 25 – Giovanni Biliverti, Italian painter (d. 1644) August 26 – Peter Lauremberg, German writer and professor (d. 1639) September 9 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman and 4th Prime Minister of France (d. 1642) September 15 – Ottavio ... |
November 9 – Battle of Penfui on Timor: A large Topass army is defeated by a numerically inferior Dutch East India Company. November 12 – In response to the increasing number of starving people moving into Paris from rural parts of France, King Louis XV issues an ordinance that "all the beggars and vagabonds who shall ... | to the college" for dissection. The city guard intervenes after a mob of protesters begin breaking windows at random buildings, but groups of citizens begin to make regular patrols of church graveyards March 17 – At London's Covent Garden, composer George Frideric Handel conducts the first performance of his new orator... |
return control of Maastricht to France, the French Army's leader of the siege, Count Löwendal, marches through the opened city gates with his troops and accepts its surrender. June 1 – A fire in Moscow kills 482 people and destroys 5,000 buildings. José de Escandón is designated by the Viceroy of New Spain as the first... | Aix-la-Chapelle (now Aachen), with the intent to conclude the War of the Austrian Succession. The treaty is signed on October 18. May 10 – As word arrives that the Dutch Republic has agreed to return control of Maastricht to France, the French Army's leader of the siege, Count Löwendal, marches through the opened city ... |
Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route. July–September July 2 – War of the Austrian Succession – Battle of Lauffeld: France defeats the combined armies of Hanover, Great Britain and the Netherlands. August 15 – Great Britain, Russia and the Dutch Republic sign the Convention ... | the coastal towns of Beaufort and Brunswick in the Royal Colony of North Carolina, during what becomes known as the Spanish Alarm. They are later driven out by the local militia. Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language in London. Births January 10 – Abraham-Louis Breguet, Swiss horologist, in... |
Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827) January 24 – King Gustav III of Sweden (d. 1792) February 4 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish general and nationalist (d. 1817) February 5 – Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American politician and soldier (d. 1825) March 3 – Izabela Czartoryska, Polish magnate princess (d. 1835) M... | offering an amnesty to participants in the Jacobite rebellion, directing them that they can avoid punishment if they turn their weapons in to their local Presbyterian church. March 10 – Zakariya Khan Bahadur, the Mughal Empire's viceroy administering Lahore (in what is now Pakistan), orders the massacre of the city's S... |
command of Field Marshal Károly József Batthyány, makes a surprise attack at Amberg and the winter quarters of the Bavarian Army, and scatters the Bavarian defending troops, then captures the Bavarian capital at Munich January 8 – The Quadruple Alliance treaty is signed at Warsaw by Great Britain, Austria, the Dutch Re... | – Pierre Bouguer appears before the French Academy of Sciences to deliver his report of the data gathered in the French Geodesic Mission, including the first precise measurement of the Earth's circumference. His determination that the circumference is and that the distance from the pole to equator is roughly eventually... |
Science, succeeding the late Anders Celsius, who had devised the centigrade measurement of temperature. October 19 – William Shirley, the British colonial Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, announces the declaration of war against the Miꞌkmaq and Maliseet Indian tribes. October 25 – The Massachusetts Genera... | later known as Catherine the Great. July–September July 8 – The Royal Navy privateer Somerset capsizes and sinks in the Bristol Channel, killing 86 of the 97 crew. July 19 – Battle of Casteldelfino: France defeats the Kingdom of Sardinia. July 29 – Nader Shah lays siege to the Ottoman citadel of Kars. August 12 – Battl... |
6 (November 25, O.S.) – Elizabeth of Russia becomes czarina after a palace coup. December 7 Charles Albert of Bavaria has himself proclaimed King of Bohemia. Aleksei Chirikov of Russia presents the first written description of the northwest coast of North America. December 19 – Vitus Bering dies during his expedition, ... | palace coup. December 7 Charles Albert of Bavaria has himself proclaimed King of Bohemia. Aleksei Chirikov of Russia presents the first written description of the northwest coast of North America. December 19 – Vitus Bering dies during his expedition, east of Siberia. December 25 – Anders Celsius develops his own therm... |
of Fort Mose, Florida. July–September July 7 – Adam Smith sets out from Scotland to take up a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford. July 11 – Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia. August 1 – The song Rule, Britannia! is first performed at Cliveden, the country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, in England. A... | India Company ship Rooswijk are drowned, when the vessel strikes the shoals of Goodwin Sands, off of the coast of England. Rooswijk was beginning its second voyage to the Indies. The wreckage is discovered more than 250 years later, in 2004. February 20 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of New... |
to the Stamford Mercury says "Since last Wednesday we have had the most violent cold Weather that was ever known in this Kingdom; hard Frost began that evening, which has continued ever since with a very stormy Wind at South-East." At least 13% of Ireland's population dies of starvation in the year that follows. Date u... | volcano occurs in Japan. The first Bible in Estonian is published. Births January 25 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823) February 15 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813) March 16 – George Clymer, American politician and Founding Father (d. 1813) March 19 – Charles-François Lebr... |
Block Island off of the coast of the colony of Rhode Island. During the voyage, 200 passengers and seven crew died from illness spread by contaminated water. Another 20 die after the crew leaves rows to shore. The wreck later becomes the subject of the legend of the "Palatine Light" ghost ship and of John Greenleaf Whi... | King George II of Great Britain negotiates a cease-fire. June 24 – British inventor Lewis Paul receives a patent for roller cotton-spinning machinery. June 27 – The Spanish Empire's Council of the Indies votes, 6 to 4, to re-establish the Viceroyalty of New Granada, incorporating modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela... |
County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed, in response to the seven preceding violent years of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war. Births January 4 – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist, politician (d. 1816) January 23 – John Hancock, American po... | the fighting parties until five months later. March 28 – The Battle of Delhi takes place between the Maratha Empire and the Mughals. April–June April 5 – French Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII. April 22 – In Afghanistan, Pers... |
what is now Ecuador, last until November 3. November 5 – King Theodore of Corsica flees the island after a reign of seven months and the kingdom reverts to French control. November 13 – Word of the discovery of silver, south of what is now the U.S.-Mexican border, reaches Sonora Governor Juan Bautista Anza and soon lea... | volunteer fire company in Philadelphia. December 26 – Andrew Michael Ramsay gives an oration, in which he relates the heritage and internationalism of Freemasonry to that of the Crusades. Date unknown Neustrelitz becomes the capital of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Bushehr is founded in Persia. The Belgrade Fortress is complet... |
is taken over by the Sultan of Bornu. Anton Wilhelm Amo becomes the first African to receive a doctorate in Europe and begins teaching at the University of Halle. Births January 16 – John A. Treutlen, Governor of Georgia (d. 1782) January 20 – Robert Morris, Founding Father of the United States (d. 1806) February 15 – ... | authorities for allegedly setting a fire that destroyed part of the city. June 30 – War of the Polish Succession: Russian troops take Gdańsk (German: Danzig), which had been besieged since February 1734, after the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city. July–September July 18 – The Siege of the Austrian for... |
Polish Succession. October 10 – France declares war on Austria and Saxony . October 24 – The Battle of Kirkuk starts which will lead to the defeat of the Ottoman army under general Topal Osman Pasha. November 23 – The 1733 slave insurrection on St. John begins: Slaves from Akwamu rebel against their owners in the Danis... | The election of Augustus III, to succeed his father as King of Poland, sparks the War of the Polish Succession. October 10 – France declares war on Austria and Saxony . October 24 – The Battle of Kirkuk starts which will lead to the defeat of the Ottoman army under general Topal Osman Pasha. November 23 – The 1733 slav... |
and a janissary who instigated a mass uprising in 1730 within the Ottoman Empire that brought Mahmud I to power as the new Sultan, is strangled to death in Mahmud's presence after the rebellion is finally suppressed. December 21 – The Maharaja Chhatrasal, monarch of Bundelkhand in India (part of the modern-day states o... | to serve as Princess of Monaco, the reigning monarch of the tiny European principality, ascending upon the death of her father Prince Antonio. She reigns only nine months before dying of smallpox on December 29. March 16 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed between the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic a... |
killing 12,000 of the Afghans and forcing the remainder to flee, bringing an end to the Battle of Damghan. November 9 – The Treaty of Seville is signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic. November 29 The Natchez revolt, the worst Native American massacre to take place on Mississippi soil, occur... | preservation of the islands flora. The gardens come to occupy 97 square miles or 251 square kilometers. July–September July 25 – Seven of the original eight Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina sell their shares back to the British crown. The 1710 division of the Province is made permanent and the area is reorg... |
British monarch. October 17 – With voting for the British House of Commons concluding, the Whigs, led by Sir Robert Walpole, increase their supermajority, winning 415 of the 558 seats. The Tories share of Commons decreases from 169 to 128. November 18 – Tabriz earthquake, Persia kills 77,000. November 21 – The Netherla... | February 22. They later create the orphanage which is the predecessor of Catholic Charities and the Ursuline Academy, oldest Catholic school in the United States. August 13 – History of the Moravian Church: The 18th century renewal: The Moravian Church community at Herrnhut undergoes a Pentecostalist experience. August... |
Liverpool Castle in England are finally demolished. In late 1726, Nader recaptured Mashhad. Births January 14 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French supporter of the American Revolution (d. 1803) January 17 – Hugh Mercer, brigadier general in the American Continental Army, and a close friend to George Washington (d. 1777) F... | down off of the coast of Recife. September 16 – An earthquake strikes Sicily and kills 226 people in Palermo. September 11 – French bishop André-Hercule de Fleury, later Prime Minister for King Louis XV of France, is made a Roman Catholic Cardinal by Pope Benedict XIII. September 23 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, is... |
Queen Consort of France. Their marriage lasts for almost 43 years until her death in 1768. September 16 – The Treaty of Hanover is signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia. October–December October 19 – Johan Paul Schagen in appointed by the Dutch East India Company to serve as the Governor of Ceylon after the ... | 250,000 movable type characters cast in bronze. Freemasonry is established in France, as an English import. The Four Seasons, a set of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, is published. Births January 25 – Antoine Court de Gébelin, French pastor (d. 1784) February 4 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1803) February ... |
Li Weijun as the first Viceory. Zhili exists as a viceroyalty until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912. December 24 – Francesco Valesio resumes writing his Diario di Roma, 13 years after he ceased his recording of daily life in Rome. Date unknown China expels foreign missionaries. Blenheim Palace construction is comp... | John Passion (BWV 245) of Johann Sebastian Bach, takes place at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. April 28 – The first of the seven "Drapier's Letters" satirical pamphlets, seeking to turn British public opinion against Ireland, is distributed by Jonathan Swift, who writes under the pseudonym "M. B., Drapier", identifying ... |
landlocked Caspian Sea. November 20 – The Dutch East India Company cargo ship Schoonenberg runs aground in South Africa's Struis Bay and is looted by most of its 110 crew, beginning a legend and questions of whether the wreck was part of a conspiracy or simply an accident. Almost 300 years later, the event is reconstru... | than a century. Johann Sebastian Bach composes The Well-Tempered Clavier. Births January 1 – Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet, British physician (d. 1809) January 3 – Fredrik Hasselqvist, Swedish traveller and naturalist (d. 1752) January 12 – Nicolas Luckner, German in French service who rose to become a Marshal of Franc... |
a crew of sailors who had survived a smallpox epidemic. One of the Seahorse crew who had cleared quarantine develops symptoms the next day and infects other people in a lodging house. Over the next 10 months, 5,759 cases of smallpox are recorded in Boston and 844 people die of the disease. April 26 – Pirates John Taylo... | Scottish physician and author (d. 1771) April 11 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808) April 14 – John Hanson, President of the Continental Congress of America (d. 1783) April 15 – Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765) April 19 – Roger Sherman, signer of the United S... |
Han Dynasty China. This is the first of the Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions, which end in 184. A Roman envoy arrives by sea in Rinan commandery, in southern China (central Vietnam). He travels to the Chinese capital Luoyang, and is greeted by Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty. By topic Religion Pope Soter succeeds... | was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pudens and Pollio (or, less frequently, year 919 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 166 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Ann... |
Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences Galen publishes his "Treatise on the various temperaments" (aka On the Elements According to Hippocrates). Religion Pope Victor I succeeds Pope Eleuterus as the fourteenth pope, the first from Africa. Demetrius of Alexandria becomes Patriarch of Alexandria. Pantae... | Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences Galen publishes his "Treatise on the various temperame... |
the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defe... | but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By ... |
when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire April 8 – Caracalla is assassinated by his soldiers near Edessa. Marcus Opellius Macrinus, head of the Praetorian Guard, declares himself Roman emperor. Summer – Battle of Nisibis: A Roman army, under ... | again clashes with his rival Sun Quan in Yang Province. By topic Religion December 20 – The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of ... |
and Cappadocia. Alexander Severus assembles the Roman army, and establishes his headquarters at Antioch. He attempts a diplomatic solution, but the Persians decline and choose war. Korea Jobun becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Silla. By topic Religion July 21 – Pope Pontian succeeds Pope Urban I, as the 18th pope o... | year 983 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 230 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Alexander Severus decides that Thessaly should be a separate province from Macedonia... |
Thrax and Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus become Roman consuls. The Roman Senate appoints a twenty-man committee to co-ordinate operations against Maximinus. Maximinus campaigns against Dacians and Sarmatians from his supply depot at Sirmium. By topic Religion January 10 – Pope Fabian succeeds Pope Anterus as the twe... | medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Maximinus Thrax and Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus become Roman consuls. The Roman Senate appoints a twenty-man committee to co-ordinate operations against Maximinus. Maximi... |
to the mines of Sardinia. Emperor Maximinus persecutes the Christians. November 21 – Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope of Rome. Origen makes revisions to the Septuagint. Births Sun Xiu, Chinese emperor of the Eastern Wu state (d. 264) Deaths March 14 – Guo Nüwang, Chinese empress (b. 184) March 19 – Sever... | of the Third Century: The Roman Empire is under pressure by the Alamanni, Franks, Goths, Quadi and Sassanids (Persia). By topic Religion September 28 – Pope Pontian resigns, the first to abdicate, because he and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia. Emperor Maximinus persecutes the Chr... |
Empire July 1 – Battle of Abritus: The Goths defeat Emperor Decius and his son Herennius Etruscus, on swampy ground in the Dobruja (Moesia). In Rome, Hostilian, son of Decius, succeeds his father, while Trebonianus Gallus is proclaimed Emperor by the troops. Gallus accepts him as co-emperor, but an outbreak of plague s... | Trebonianus Gallus is proclaimed Emperor by the troops. Gallus accepts him as co-emperor, but an outbreak of plague strikes the city, and kills Hostilian. The prosperity of Roman Britain declines during this period, as the Germanic tribes of the Franks and Saxons, whose homelands are in Friesland and the Low Countries,... |
to the north, but at Foligno they are killed by their own troops. Aemilianus rules the Roman Empire for three months; he promises to fight in Thrace and goes to war against Persia. The Senate gives him the rank of Pontifex Maximus. Aemilianus is murdered at Spoletium and Publius Valerianus, age 60, is recognised as the... | own troops. Aemilianus rules the Roman Empire for three months; he promises to fight in Thrace and goes to war against Persia. The Senate gives him the rank of Pontifex Maximus. Aemilianus is murdered at Spoletium and Publius Valerianus, age 60, is recognised as the new emperor by the Rhine legions. He gives his son Pu... |
Gallienus become Roman Consuls. The Roman Empire is threatened by several peoples on their borders: the Germanic confederations, such as the Franks on the Middle Rhine, the Alemanni on the upper Rhine and Danube, and the Marcomanni facing the provinces at Noricum and Raetia. On land the confederation of Goths threaten ... | by several peoples on their borders: the Germanic confederations, such as the Franks on the Middle Rhine, the Alemanni on the upper Rhine and Danube, and the Marcomanni facing the provinces at Noricum and Raetia. On land the confederation of Goths threaten the lower Danube provinces, and on the sea they threaten the sh... |
Aurelian defeats the Goths and brings many prisoners back to Rome. In Bavaria the Limes Germanicus (Upper Raetian Limes) along the river Iller is abandoned by the Romans. Valerian, under guardianship of Ingenuus, is established at Sirmium (Pannonia) to represent the Roman government in the troubled Illyrian provinces. ... | known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerianus and Gallienus (or, less frequently, year 1010 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 257 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Galli... |
and Science In Rome, the manufacturing of soap containing grease, lime and ashes begins. Appian writes Ρωμαικα, known in English as the Roman History, in which he includes the history of each nation conquered up until the moment of its conquest. Religion The first Buddhist monks arrive in China. </onlyinclude> Births A... | full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Atilius and Vibius (or, less frequently, year 913 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 160 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe ... |
Emperor Antoninus Pius dies, and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius, who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus, although Marcus retains the title Pontifex Maximus. Marcus Aurelius, a Spaniard like Trajan and Hadrian, is a stoical disciple of Epictetus, and an energetic man of action. He pursues the policy of his predece... | The denomination 161 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire March 7 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies, and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius, who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus... |
method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Lucius Verus begins a war with the Parthians, due to the invasion of Syria and Armenia by King Vologases IV of Parthia. By topic Art and Science Arrian, Greek historian and writer, publishes Indica, a work on India and its people. Births Marcus Annius Veru... | as the Year of the Consulship of Rusticus and Plautius (or, less frequently, year 915 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 162 AD for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for |
Armenia; the capital city of Artaxata is ruined. Births Cui Yan (or Jigui), Chinese official and politician (d. 216) Sun Shao (or Changxu), Chinese chancellor (d. 225) Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus, Roman politician Xun Yu, Chinese politician and adviser (d. 212) Deaths Kong Zhou, father of Kong Rong (b. 103) Marc... | of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laelianus and Pastor (or, less frequently, year 916 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 163 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming ye... |
Lucius Verus. Avidius Cassius, one of Lucius Verus' generals, crosses the Euphrates and invades Parthia. Ctesiphon is captured by the Romans, but returns to the Parthians after the end of the war. The Antonine Wall in Scotland is abandoned by the Romans. Seleucia on the Tigris is destroyed. </onlyinclude> Births Brutti... | of Macrinus and Celsus (or, less frequently, year 917 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 164 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Marcus Aurelius gives his daughter Luci... |
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Quadratus (or, less frequently, year 920 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 167 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the An... | became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus and Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus become Roman Consuls. The Marcomanni tribe wages war against the Romans at Aquileia. They destroy aqueducts and irrigation conduits. Marcus Aurelius repels the invad... |
and establish their headquarters at Aquileia. The Roman army crosses the Alps into Pannonia, and subdues the Marcomanni at Carnuntum, north of the Danube. Asia Emperor Ling of Han succeeds Emperor Huan of Han as the emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty; the first year of the Jianning era. Births Cao Ren, Chinese general ... | Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his adopted brother Lucius Verus leave Rome, and establish their headquarters at Aquileia. The Roman army crosses the Alps into Pannonia, and subdues the Marcomanni at Carnuntum, north of the Danube. Asia Emperor Ling of Han succeeds Emperor Huan of Han as the em... |
Year of the Consulship of Senecio and Apollinaris (or, less frequently, year 922 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 169 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Marcomannic Wars: Ge... | Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Senecio and Apollinaris (or, less frequently, year 922 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 169 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.... |
Northern Italy. The Roman army (20,000 men) is destroyed near Carnuntum in Pannonia. The Marcomanni plunder Opitergium (modern Oderzo) and besiege Aquileia. This is the first time hostile forces have entered Italy since 101 BC. Emperor Marcus Aurelius writes in Sirmium (Pannonia) his first of 12 books of the Meditation... | Opitergium (modern Oderzo) and besiege Aquileia. This is the first time hostile forces have entered Italy since 101 BC. Emperor Marcus Aurelius writes in Sirmium (Pannonia) his first of 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek. The Costoboci cross the Danube (Dacia) and ravage Thrace in the Balkan Peninsula. They rea... |
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