1. In 1040, the Battle of Dandana Qan took place. Tughril's Seljuk army defeated the Ghaznavid force near Merv (present - day Turk...

1. In 334 BC, the Battle of the Granicus River took place. Alexander the Great's Macedonian army defeated the Persian Empire's arm...

1. 252 - Sun Quan, the founding emperor of the Wu state in the Three Kingdoms period, passed away. 2. 613 - Emperor Yang of the Su...

1. 325 - The First Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of Christian bishops, is held at Nicaea, Asia Minor. 2. 685 - T...

1. 715 - Pope Gregory II is elected. 2. 1051 - Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev. 3. 1314 - Visby, on the Swedish island of G...

1. 1302 - The weaver Peter de Coninck led a massacre of the Flemish oligarchs. 2. 1604 - Bertrand Russell, a famous British logici...

1. 218 - The 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 2. 352 - Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope, replacing Jul...

1. In 955, Octavian, son of Duke Alberic II of Spoleto, was elected Pope John XII. 2. In 1165, Ramjbam and his family reached Acre...

1. In 756, Abd - al - Rahman I became the emir of Cordoba, Spain. 2. In 884, Marinus I ended his reign as the Catholic pope. 3. In...

1. 649 - Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope. 2. 1027 - Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior king of the Fra...

1. 535 - St. Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. 2. 609 - Pope Boniface I turns the Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic chu...

1. 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian painter, was born. 2. 1755 - "Johnson's Dictionary" compiled by British writer Sam...

1. 330 - Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople. 2. 483 ...

1. In 70, Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of Emperor Vespasian, opened a full - scale assault on Jerusalem and attacked the city's ...

1. 1457 BC - The Battle of Megiddo begins. It is the first well - documented ancient battle. Pharaoh Thutmose III of Egypt leads h...

1. 535 - John II's reign as Catholic Pope ends upon his death. 2. 589 - Visigothic King Recca Red summons the Third Council of Tol...

1. In 558, the dome of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople collapsed, and Justinian I immediately ordered it to be rebuilt. 2. In 1...

1. 878 - Battle of Edington: Alfred the Great and his West Saxon army defeat the Viking army of Guthrum the Old (earliest possible...

1. 1260: Kublai Khan becomes the ruler of the Mongol Empire after the death of his brother Möngke. 2. 1430: Jews are expelled...

1. In 1256, the Augustinian monastic order was constituted at the Lecce to monastery when Pope Alexander IV issued the papal bull ...

1. In 1374 BC, a solar eclipse was observed in Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers. 2. In 1294, John II became the Duke of Brabant ...

1. In 1194, King Richard I of England gave Portsmouth its first royal charter. 2. In 1230, William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergaven...

1. 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire as Roman emperors. 2. 524 - King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at Orleans after an eig...

1. In 311, Roman Emperor Galerius issued the Edict of Toleration, ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. 2. In ...

1. In 1091, the Battle of Monte Levunium took place. Byzantine Emperor Alexius I defeated the Pecheneg forces invading from the no...

1. In 357, Emperor Constantius II visited Rome. 2. In 1140, the Palatine Chapel, commissioned by Roger II, was consecrated on Palm...

1. In 1124, David I became the King of Scots. 2. In 1296, the Scots were defeated by Edward I of England in the Battle of Dunbar. ...

1. In 499, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Hong, passed away. 2. In 757, Paolo Orsini replaced his brother Pope...

1. In 41 AD, after a night of negotiation, Claudius was accepted as the Roman emperor by the Roman Senate. 2. In 750, in the Battl...

1. 1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the low ch...

1. 215 BC - A temple built on the Capitoline Hill is dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene....

1. 238 - Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws Emperor Maximus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and n...

1. 753 BC - Rome is founded by Romulus (traditional date). 2. 43 BC - Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is defeated by Aulus Hirtius. ...

1. 350 - Magnentius declared himself emperor in Gaul, triggering a civil war with Constantine II, which accelerated the division o...

1. 531 - Battle of Callinicum: Roman general Belisarius was defeated by the Sasanian army led by Azarethes in northern Syria, and ...

1. 310 - St. Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic pope. 2. 387 - Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus. 3. 1025 - Bolesła...

1. 38 - Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate a...

1. 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. 2. 11...

1. In 1053, Godwin, the first Earl of Wessex, died in Winchester. 2. In 1452, Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian painter, was born. 3. ...

1. 605 - Emperor Yang of Sui orders the construction of the Grand Canal. 2. 1619 - The Battle of Sarhu breaks out. 3. 1710 - The B...

1. In 837, the best view of Halley's Comet in 2,000 years was seen. 2. In 989, Byzantine Emperor Basilius II defeated Bardas Phoca...

1. In 467, Anthemius is elevated to emperor of the Western Roman Empire by Leo I. 2. In 1065, pilgrims under Bishop Gunther of Bam...

1. In 491, Flavius Anastasius became the Byzantine emperor, known as Anastasius I. 2. In 672, Deus Deodatus II began his reign as ...

1. 837 - Comet Halley approaches within 0.0334 astronomical units of Earth. 2. 847 - St. Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope....

1. 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz: Mongolian armies defeat a Polish - German coalition led by Henry of Silesia. 2. 1388 - Battle of N&a...

1. 484 BC - Wu Zixu, a statesman and strategist in the late Spring and Autumn period, passed away. 2. 217 - Roman Emperor Caracall...

1. In 30 AD, according to scholars' estimates, Jesus was crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem. 2. In 451, Attila the Hun plunder...

1. 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the Battle of Thapsus. 2....

1. 456 - Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop. 2. 823 - Pope Paschal I crowns Lothair I as co - emperor of Fran...

1. 1081 - Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne. 2. 1460 - University of Basel founded in Swiss Confederacy (now Switzerlan...

1. In 419, Etalius ends his reign as Catholic Pope. 2. In 1043, Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. 3. In 1077, the f...

1. In 999, Gerbert of Aurillac was elected as the first French pope. 2. In 1416, Alfonso V succeeded his father as the king of Ara...

1. In 374, Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 aus of Earth. 2. In 527, Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew ...

1. In 1084, anti - pope Clemens crowned German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor. 2. In 1146, Bernard of Clairvaux preached hi...

1. 240 BC - The 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 2. 804 - Ludger becomes the 1st Bishop of Münster in the H...

1. In 502, King Gundo of Burgundy delegates royal power. 2. In 845, Paris is sacked by Viking raiders. 3. In 1421, Thomas, Duke of...

1. In 37, Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula, accepted the titles of the principate, ...

1. 196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 2. 1003 - Peace deal signed between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and the pag...

1. 127 - Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens (until 141 AD). 2. 685 - Cuthbert (late...

1. 410 - The Southern Yan Dynasty ended with the fall of its capital Guanggu to the Jin Dynasty general Liu Yu. 2. 421 - The city ...