Исторические события разных лет

241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage. 947 – The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares himself emperor. 1496 – After establishing the city of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus departs for Spain, leaving his brother in command. 1535 – Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, discovers the Galápagos Islands by chance on his way to Peru.

1607 – Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia. 1629 – Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England, beginning the eleven year period known as the Personal Rule. 1661 – French "Sun King" Louis XIV begins his personal rule of France after the death of his premier, the Cardinal Mazarin. 1735 – An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories. 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform. 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France. 1830 – The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created. 1831 – The French Foreign Legion is created by Louis Philippe, the King of France, from the foreign regiments of the Kingdom of France. 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War. 1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali. 1873 – The first Azerbaijani play, The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran, prepared by Akhundov, is performed by Hassan bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf bey Vezirov. 1876 – The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell. 1891 – Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France. 1909 – By signing the Anglo Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates. 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation. 1933 – The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area, leaving around 108 people dead. 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front. 1945 – World War II: The U. S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. 1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason. 1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba. 1959 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal. 1966 – Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacks rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation. 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant. 1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U. S. military with My Lai war crimes. 1971 – John Gorton resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia after a secret ballot vote of confidence, being replaced in both positions by William McMahon. 1974 – 1974 Belgian general election: Elections are held in Belgium for all 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, the Belgian Socialist Party taking the majority with 59. 1975 – Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam. 1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus. 1979 – 1979 International Women's Day protests in Tehran: Protestor involvement peaks with 15,000 Iranian women and girls performing a three‐hour long sit‐in at the Courthouse of Tehran. 1982 – Syzygy: All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun. 1989 – Air Ontario Flight 1363, a Fokker F 28 Fellowship, crashes at Dryden Regional Airport in Dryden, Ontario, Canada, killing 24. 1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted eighteen months after seizing power in a coup d'état in September 1988. 1991 – 1991 Salvadoran legislative election: The Nationalist Republican Alliance wins 39 of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. 2000 – The Dot com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62. 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars. 2017 – The impeachment of President Park Geun hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency. 2019 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after take off, killing all 157 people on board. This and the prior Lion Air Flight 610 led to all 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide. 2022 – 2022 Hungarian presidential election: The National Assembly of Hungary elects former minister for Family Affairs, Katalin Novák, as president of Hungary in a 137–51 vote, becoming the first female president in the country's history. 2023 – Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to a run on its deposits, in the second largest bank failure in US history. Its operations are taken over by the FDIC. 2024 – 2024 Portuguese legislative election: Elections are held in Portugal for all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. The Partido Socialista loses its absolute majority to the Partido Social Democrata, winning 77 and 79 seats respectively.

1452 – Ferdinand II, king of Castile and León (d. 1516)
1503 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1564)
1536 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (d. 1572)
1596 – Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, daughter of King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1618)

1604 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German Dutch alchemist and chemist (d. 1670)
1628 – François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715)
1628 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (d. 1694)
1653 – John Benbow, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1702)
1656 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian Rococo sculptor (d. 1732)
1709 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer (d. 1746)
1749 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian American priest and poet (d. 1838)
1769 – Joseph Williamson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1840)
1772 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1829)
1777 – Louis Hersent, French painter (d. 1860)
1787 – Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1862)
1787 – William Etty, English painter and academic (d. 1849)
1788 – Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1857)
1788 – Edward Hodges Baily, English sculptor (d. 1867)
1789 – Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (d. 1850)
1795 – Joseph Légaré, Canadian painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure (d. 1855)
1810 – Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet and lawyer (d. 1886)
1843 – Evelyn Abbott, English classical scholar (d. 1901)
1844 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (d. 1908)
1844 – Marie Euphrosyne Spartali, British Pre Raphaelite painter (d. 1927)
1845 – Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
1846 – Edward Baker Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1850)
1849 – Hallie Quinn Brown, African American educator, writer and activist (d. 1949)
1850 – Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
1853 – Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish New Zealand cartographer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
1867 – Hector Guimard, French American architect (d. 1942)
1867 – Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian, and author, founded the Henry Street Settlement (d. 1940)
1870 – David Riazanov, Russian theorist and politician (d. 1938)
1873 – Jakob Wassermann, German Austrian soldier and author (d. 1934)
1876 – Anna Hyatt Huntington, American sculptor (d. 1973)
1877 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican diplomat and president (1930 1932) (d. 1963)
1881 – Jessie Boswell, English painter (d. 1956)
1888 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961)
1890 – Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1939)
1892 – Arthur Honegger, French composer and educator (d. 1955)
1892 – Gregory La Cava, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1952)
1896 – Frederick Coulton Waugh, British cartoonist, painter, teacher and author (d. 1973)
1900 – Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017)
1900 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (d. 1943)

1682 – Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1628)
1724 – Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (b. 1641)
1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, French author and critic (b. 1718)
1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
1826 – John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian (b. 1758)
1832 – Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1752)
1861 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet, playwright, and ethnographer (b. 1814)
1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1805)
1895 – Charles Frederick Worth, English French fashion designer (b. 1825)
1897 – Savitribai Phule, Indian poet and activist (b. 1831)
1898 – Marie Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (b. 1817)

1910 – Karl Lueger, Austrian lawyer and politician Mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)
1910 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1824)
1913 – Harriet Tubman, American nurse and activist (b. c. 1820)
1925 – Myer Prinstein, Polish American jumper (b. 1878)
1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and author (b. 1884)
1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (b. 1891)
1942 – Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (b. 1865)
1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, visual artist, and ballet dancer (b. 1900)
1948 – Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
1951 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
1966 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1966 – Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
1973 – Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (1960 – 1973), Governor of Kenya (1952 – 1959), High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1944 – 1951), Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1942 – 1944) (b. 1903)
1973 – Li Mi, Chinese lieutenant general and anti communist, Taiwanese nationalist (b. 1902)
1973 – Richard Sharples, British politician, incumbent Governor of Bermuda (1972–1973) (b. 1916)
1977 – E. Power Biggs, English American organist and composer (b. 1906)
1985 – Konstantin Chernenko, Russian soldier and politician, Head of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1911)
1985 – Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1986 – Ray Milland, Welsh American actor and director (b. 1907)
1988 – Andy Gibb, Australian singer songwriter and actor (b. 1958)
1992 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and composer (b. 1925)
1996 – Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1926)
1997 – LaVern Baker, American singer and actress (b. 1929)
1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor and director (b. 1913)
1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
2005 – Dave Allen, Irish English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2007 – Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
2010 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (b. 1928)
2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
2011 – Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
2012 – Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (b. 1938)
2012 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
2013 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British born Swedish Princess (b.1915)
2015 – Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2016 – Ken Adam, German English production designer and art director (b. 1921)
2016 – Roberto Perfumo, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster (b. 1942)
2016 – Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1920)
2016 – Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (b. 1928)
2022 – John Elliott, English historian and academic (b. 1930)