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30 BC After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Marc Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Caesar and Cleopatra.
20 BC Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.
79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho and 12,000 "barbarians" are incorporated into the Roman army or sold as slaves.
476 Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
634 Abu Bakr dies at Medina and is succeeded by Umar I who becomes the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
1244 Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
1268 Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
1305 Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.
1328 Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1382 Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1514 The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1521 Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 French Wars of Religion Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1592 Japanese invasions of Korea: The Yeongwon Castle is besieged by the Japanese Fourth Division led by Itō Suketaka.
1595 Long War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory.
1600 Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
1614 Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
1614 The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic.
1628 George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1650 Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
1655 Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1765 Beginning of BurmeseSiamese War.
1775 American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
1799 Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1813 At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bόlow repulse the French army.
1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1858 The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
1864 The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1866 Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1896 Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
1898 The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1904 The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1914 World War I: Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal.
1921 British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1923 Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 Italian Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1929 Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1938 English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
1944 World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 Freckleton Air Disaster A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1946 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Lδnder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 World Council of Churches is formed.
1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1958 Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1970 Organized by Mexican American labor union leader Cιsar Chαvez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1982 Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1987 The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. The final score was 120115 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team".
1989 Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1989 One thousand six hundred forty-five Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1991 Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW, World Wide Web to new users.
1993 The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
1994 Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2007 The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2010 Manila hostage crisis, in which eight hostages were killed.
2011 A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million$300 million USD.
2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
2013 A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, kills 31 people.
Events:C/P.
30 BC After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Marc Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Caesar and Cleopatra.
20 BC Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.
79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho and 12,000 "barbarians" are incorporated into the Roman army or sold as slaves.
476 Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
634 Abu Bakr dies at Medina and is succeeded by Umar I who becomes the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
1244 Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
1268 Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
1305 Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.
1328 Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1382 Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1514 The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1521 Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 French Wars of Religion Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1592 Japanese invasions of Korea: The Yeongwon Castle is besieged by the Japanese Fourth Division led by Itō Suketaka.
1595 Long War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory.
1600 Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
1614 Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
1614 The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic.
1628 George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1650 Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
1655 Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1765 Beginning of BurmeseSiamese War.
1775 American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
1799 Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1813 At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bόlow repulse the French army.
1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1858 The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
1864 The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1866 Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1896 Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
1898 The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1904 The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1914 World War I: Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal.
1921 British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1923 Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 Italian Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1929 Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1938 English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
1944 World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 Freckleton Air Disaster A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1946 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Lδnder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 World Council of Churches is formed.
1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1958 Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1970 Organized by Mexican American labor union leader Cιsar Chαvez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1982 Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1987 The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. The final score was 120115 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team".
1989 Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1989 One thousand six hundred forty-five Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1991 Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW, World Wide Web to new users.
1993 The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
1994 Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2007 The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2010 Manila hostage crisis, in which eight hostages were killed.
2011 A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million$300 million USD.
2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
2013 A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, kills 31 people.