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1532 – Inca Emperor Atahualpa‘s refusal to pay tribute to Charles V prompts Francisco Pizarro to attack the Inca Army in the Battle of Cajamarca. Pizarro and his men take Atahualpa hostage. This interaction marked the beginning of the end of the Inca Empire. 1793 – Ninety Roman Catholic Priests, dissidents of the French Revolution,...
1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time. 1660 – First kosher butcher licensed in New Amsterdam to Asser Levy. Levy successfully challenged Peter Stuyvesant to allow Jews to serve as soldiers and trade in Albany. With his purchase of land on...
Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Blue Nile. 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the United States. 1862 – President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside’s plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg. 1886...
AD 54 – Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. 409 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania. 1332 – Rinchinbal Khan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty, reigning for only 53 days. 1710 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls...
The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, emits a green laser marking the Prime Meridian
1330 – Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush. 1439 – Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. 1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj. 1912...
A U.S. Marine patrol crosses the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal
in September 1942
1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezumawelcomes him with a great celebration. 1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public. 1614 – Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian. 1861 – The USS San Jacinto...
Civil Works Administration workers on the Denver Capitol building
