Исторические события разных лет

141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China. 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. 1226 – Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. 1230 – Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa. 1500 – The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.

1701 – Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three year occupation. 1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually died by suicide. 1776 – The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published. 1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. 1811 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí. 1815 – Francis Ronalds describes the first battery operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine. 1841 – The U. S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally. 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers. 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush. 1847 – Mexican–American War: The first large scale amphibious assault in U. S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz. 1862 – American Civil War: Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

1908 – Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A. C. Milan. 1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies. 1942 – World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign. 1944 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia. 1945 – World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power. 1945 – World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians. 1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more. 1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly. 1956 – Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de Stalinization policy. 1957 – The 8.6 Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami. 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. 1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis. 1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight. 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio, following a mid air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people. 1974 – The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars. 1976 – Forty two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the deadliest cable car accident in history. 1977 – The Hanafi Siege: In a 39 hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D. C., buildings. 1978 – President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java. 1987 – Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors Corporation. 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale Bopp to be seen during the day. 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights. 2012 – A truce between the Salvadoran government and gangs in the country goes into effect when 30 gang leaders are transferred to lower security prisons. 2015 – Two Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopters collide in mid air over Villa Castelli, Argentina, killing all 10 people on board both aircraft, including French athletes Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine, as well as producers and guests for the French TV show Dropped. 2020 – Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy, announces in a televised address and signs the decree imposing the first nationwide COVID 19 lockdown in the world. 2023 – A shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight.

1451 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer, namesake of the Americas (d. 1512)
1564 – David Fabricius, German theologian, cartographer and astronomer (d. 1617)
1568 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint, namesake of Gonzaga University (d. 1591)

1662 – Franz Anton von Sporck, German noble (d. 1738)
1697 – Friederike Caroline Neuber, German actress (d. 1760)
1737 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1781)
1749 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (d. 1791)
1753 – Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general (d. 1800)
1758 – Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroanatomist and physiologist (d. 1828)
1763 – William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
1806 – Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
1814 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and playwright (d. 1861)
1815 – David Davis, American jurist and politician (d. 1886)
1820 – Samuel Blatchford, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1893)
1824 – Amasa Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, founded Stanford University (d. 1893)
1847 – Martin Pierre Marsick, Belgian violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)
1850 – Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (d. 1925)
1856 – Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer (d. 1928)
1863 – Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (d. 1950)
1887 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (d. 1976)
1890 – Rupert Balfe, Australian footballer and lieutenant (d. 1915)
1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1986)
1891 – José P. Laurel, Filipino lawyer, politician and President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
1892 – Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian politician (d. 1971)
1892 – Vita Sackville West, English author, poet, and gardener (d. 1962)

1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician (b. 1606)
1649 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier and politician (b. 1590)
1661 – Cardinal Mazarin, Italian French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1602)
1709 – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English courtier and politician (b. 1638)
1808 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (b. 1739)
1810 – Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic (b. 1742)
1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, author, and critic (b. 1743)
1831 – Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger, German author and playwright (b. 1752)
1847 – Mary Anning, English paleontologist (b. 1799)
1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist, discovered electromagnetism and the element aluminium (b. 1777)
1876 – Louise Colet, French poet (b. 1810)
1888 – William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
1895 – Leopold von Sacher Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1836)
1897 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian American skier (b. 1825)

1918 – Frank Wedekind, German author and playwright (b. 1864)
1925 – Willard Metcalf, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
1926 – Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (b. 1865)
1937 – Paul Elmer More, American journalist and critic (b. 1864)
1943 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
1954 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
1955 – Miroslava Stern (Miroslava), Czech Mexican actress (b. 1925)
1964 – Paul von Lettow Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
1969 – Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
1971 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Pope (b. 1902)
1974 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1974 – Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
1983 – Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
1983 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1988 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
1991 – Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
1992 – Menachem Begin, Belarusian Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1993 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)
1994 – Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1920)
1994 – Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler, referee, and manager (b. 1928)
1994 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
1995 – Edward Bernays, Austrian American propagandist (b. 1891)
1996 – George Burns, American comedian, actor, and writer (b. 1896)
1997 – Jean Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (b. 1952)
1997 – Terry Nation, Welsh author and screenwriter (b. 1930)
1997 – The Notorious B. I. G., American rapper, songwriter, and actor (b. 1972)
1999 – Harry Somers, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1925)
1999 – George Singh, Belizean jurist and Chief Justice of Belize (b. 1937)
2000 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1908)
2003 – Stan Brakhage, American director and cinematographer (b. 1933)
2003 – Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
2004 – John Mayer, Indian composer (b. 1930)
2006 – Tom Fox, American activist (b. 1951)
2006 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
2006 – John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1915)
2007 – Brad Delp, American singer songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
2007 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2010 – Willie Davis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1940)
2010 – Doris Haddock, American activist and politician (b. 1910)
2010 – Wilfy Rebimbus, Indian singer (b. 1942)
2010 – Henry Wittenberg, American wrestler (b. 1918)
2011 – David S. Broder, American journalist and academic (b. 1929)
2013 – Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat (b. 1923)
2013 – Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (b. 1928)
2015 – James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish soldier and politician (b. 1920)
2016 – Robert Horton, American actor (b. 1924)
2016 – Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
2017 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter (b. 1932)
2018 – Jo Min ki, Korean actor (b. 1965)
2020 – John Bathersby, Australian Catholic bishop (b. 1936)
2021 – James Levine, American conductor and pianist (b. 1943)
2021 – Roger Mudd, American journalist (b. 1928)
2023 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor (b. 1935)