333 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar. 336 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration…
333 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar. 336 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration…
1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English. 1390 – Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92): The Teutonic…
1600 – British East India Company chartered 1744 – English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion (wobble) 1756 – Russia joins the…
1814 – Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson’s make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew…
1776 – George Washington defeats Hessians at Battle of Trenton in American Revolutionary War 1793 – Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians. 1917 – US…
1688 – King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange 1690 – English astronomer John Flamsteed observes…
1898 – Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium 1907 – Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget 1909 – U of…
1830 – Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium 1879 – Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park 1917 – A…