395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope. 757 – Du Fu returns to Chang’an…
395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope. 757 – Du Fu returns to Chang’an…
43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated. 574 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity. He abdicates the throne…
• 1060 – Béla I is crowned King of Hungary. • 1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus’: Kiev under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytrofalls…
1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. 1556 – Akbar (14) succeeds…
India celebrating its Navy Day 771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. 1110…
915 – Pope John X crowned Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor. 1676 – Battle of Lund (Scanian War): Swedish army of 8,000…
1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor of France in Paris 1816 – First savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society) 1939 –…
800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican. 1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris. 1577 – Francis Walsingham…
1648 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I 1707 – The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to…
526 – Antioch, modern day Syria, struck by an earthquake, killing about 250,000 561 – King Chlothar I dies at Compiègne. The Merovingian dynasty is…