Legacy of Athanasius: Defender of Orthodoxy (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (09 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.
The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England.
Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
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10:39
Emperor Honorius' Tax Relief Edict for Devastated Provinces (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (08 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.
Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good).
Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her Revelations of Divine Love.
Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).
A newly nationalized silver mine in Scotland at Hilderston, West Lothian is re-opened by Bevis Bulmer.
William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island.
The Battle of Peshawar where the Marathas defeated Timur Shah Abdali (Durrani) and Peshawar was captured and annexed into the Maratha Empire thus extending the Maratha Empire to its farthest distance away from Pune that it ever reached - over 2000 km - almost to the borders of Afghanistan.
King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.
Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
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9:21
Jewish Revolt Against Constantius Gallus in 351 AD (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (07 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.
Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV of France's new Palace of Versailles.
Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.
Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace.
The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
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8:06
Sack of Rome: End of High Renaissance (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (06 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
The Dutch city of Coevorden held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force.
English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
The end of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740-1757).
English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
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7:49
Second Council of Constantinople: Shaping Christian Doctrine (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (05 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.
Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
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