Year 823 Calendar » Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
Year 1081 Calendar » Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.
Year 1242 Calendar » During a Battle of the Ice or battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Republic of Novgorod named Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
Year 1536 Calendar » Royal Entry of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor called Charles V into Rome: the last Roman triumph.
Year 1566 Calendar » Two-hundred Habsburg Netherlands Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Compromise of Nobles Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The
Year 1609 Calendar » 'Daimyo' (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Tokugawa Shogunate known as Japan, completes Invasion of Ryukyu called his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
Year 1614 Calendar » In Virginia, Native Americans in the United States named Native American Pocahontas marries English People called English colonist John Rolfe.
Year 1621 Calendar » The 'Mayflower' sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
Year 1710 Calendar » The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
Year 1722 Calendar » The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
Year 1792 Calendar » President of the United States named U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
Year 1804 Calendar » High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
Year 1847 Calendar » Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park in Britain, is opened in Birkenhead.
Year 1862 Calendar » American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown (1862) called Battle of Yorktown begins.
Year 1879 Calendar » Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
Year 1900 Calendar » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
Year 1904 Calendar » The first international rugby league match is played between England national rugby league team named England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park (Wigan) called Central Park, Wigan, England.
Year 1922 Calendar » The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
Year 1923 Calendar » Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
Year 1932 Calendar » Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
Year 1932 » Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
Year 1933 Calendar » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive order (United States) e.g executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Executive Order 6102 named 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certi
Year 1936 Calendar » Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An Fujita scale known as F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches Easter Sunday Raid a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall 56 6 and HMS Dorsetshire 40
Year 1943 Calendar » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the resid
Year 1944 Calendar » World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura, Kastoria named Kleisoura are executed by the Nazi Germany named Germans.
Year 1945 Calendar » Cold War: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia e.g Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
Year 1946 Calendar » Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11-month occupation.
Year 1949 Calendar » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
Year 1949 » Fireside Theater debuts on television.
Year 1951 Calendar » Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage named spying for the Soviet Union.
Year 1956 Calendar » Fidel Castro declares himself at war with President of Cuba called Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
Year 1956 » In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and Solomon Bandaranaike e.g S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
Year 1957 Calendar » In India, Communist Party of India or Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
Year 1958 Calendar » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
Year 1969 Calendar » Vietnam War: Massive Opposition to the Vietnam War known as antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
Year 1971 Calendar » In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
Year 1986 Calendar » Three people are killed in the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing or bombing of the La Belle (discotheque) called La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
Year 1991 Calendar » An Atlantic Southeast Airlines ASA Embraer EMB 120 EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including John Tower Sen. John Tower and Sonny Carter Astronaut Sonny Carter.
Year 1992 Calendar » Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, 1992 Peruvian constitutional crisis known as dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
Year 1992 » The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serbs or Serb Paramilitary or paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.
Year 1994 Calendar » American musician Death of Kurt Cobain named Kurt Cobain commits suicide.
Year 1998 Calendar » In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion United States dollar e.g USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
Year 1999 Calendar » Two History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi e.g Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
Year 2009 Calendar » North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
Year 2010 Calendar » Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster known as Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.