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1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France. 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord...
The Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background ,
Vincent Van Gogh, housed in the MoMA
1217 – The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul’s Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs. 1856 – Scenes...
1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. 1499 – Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary. 1605 – Guy Fawkes is arrested. 1768 –...
1889 – The Dakotas are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states. 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities”....
Hughes H-4 Hercules, completed too late for use in WWII
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. 1520 – The Strait of Magellan is discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage. 1604 – William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace...
637 – Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge. 1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia. 1806 – Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders...
