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Up to 1900
1. 1217 – Livonian Crusade: Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian tribal leader Kaupo are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day. 2. 1327 – After rejecting the throne, King Edward II of England is murdered in Berkeley, Gloucester. 3. 1435 – An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in the Hundred Years' War. 4. 1745 – A Hanoverian army is defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans by the Jacobites under Charles Edw...
1901 – 2000
1. 1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 561 people. 2. 1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshu, Japan, killing 3,036 people. 3. 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbitis published. 4. 1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island, killing between 500 and 700 people. 5. 1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is killed by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard. 6. 1942 – In Dunaivtski, Ukraine, the Nazis murder 2,588 Jews. 7. 1949 – The Peop...
From 2001
1. 2001 – 31 people are killed in a chemical explosion in Toulouse, France. 2. 2003 – The Galileo mission is ended by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes. 3. 2004 – In Dubai, building work begins on what would become the Burj Khalifa. It was opened on January 4, 2010 as the world's tallest building, at a height of 828 metres. 4. 2013 – Westgate shopping mall shooting: A shooting attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, ki...
Up to 1800
1. 1051 – Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1087) 2. 1154 – Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (d. 1208) 3. 1328 – Hongwu, Emperor of China (d. 1398) 4. 1371 – Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1440) 5. 1411 – Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, pretender to the English throne (d. 1460) 6. 1415 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493) 7. 1428 – Jingtai, Emperor of China (d. 1457) 8. 1452 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian philosopher and priest (d. 1...
1801 – 1900
1. 1801 – Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, German-Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1874) 2. 1817 – John Allan Broun, Scottish scientist (d. 1879) 3. 1819 – Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864) 4. 1840 – Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904) 5. 1842 – Abd-ul-Hamid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918) 6. 1845 – Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (d. 1923) 7. 1846 – Mihaly Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovenian writer (d. 1906) 8. 1849 – Maurice Barrymore, Indian-American actor (d. 19...
1901 – 1950
1. 1902 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963) 2. 1902 – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British ethnologist (d. 1973) 3. 1902 – Toyen, Czech painter (d. 1980) 4. 1909 – Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (d. 1972) 5. 1912 – Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002) 6. 1912 – Gyorgy Sandor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005) 7. 1916 – Françoise Giroud, French feminist journalist and writer (d. 2003) 8. 1918 – John Gofman, American scientist (d. 2007) 9. 1919 – Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physici...
Up to 1900
1. 19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC) 2. 454 – Flavius Aetius, Roman general (b. 396) 3. 687 – Pope Conon (b. 630) 4. 1217 – Lembitu, Estoniantribal leader 5. 1217 – Kaupo, Livoniantribal leader 6. 1327 – King Edward II of England (b. 1284) 7. 1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500) 8. 1576 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian doctor, philosopher and mathematician (b. 1501) 9. 1643 – Huang Taiji, Chinese Emperor (b. 1592) 10. 1743 – Jai Singh II, Indian King (b. 1688) 11. 1798 – George Read,...
1901 – 2000
1. 1904 – Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840) 2. 1906 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838) 3. 1926 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857) 4. 1929 – Nathaniel Edwin Harris, American politician (b. 1846) 5. 1933 – Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (b. 1896) 6. 1939 – Armand Calinescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1893) 7. 1943 – Kingsley Wood, British politician (b. 1881) 8. 1947 – Harry Carey, American actor, director,...
From 2001
1. 2007 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian skier (b. 1929) 2. 2011 – Paulette Dubost, French actress (b. 1910) 3. 2011 – Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate (b. 1968) 4. 2012 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1913) 5. 2012 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (b. 1917) 6. 2012 – Michael Rye, American actor (b. 1918) 7. 2014 – Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (b. 1953) 8. 2014 – Caldwell Jones, American basketball player (b. 1950) 9. 201...
Independence Day (Belize and Malta)Spring Day in some South AmericancountriesSeptember 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 101 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power. 1170 – The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders.
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Feb 2, 2024 · SWB: 032294611. SELIBR : 535600. Open Library : OL6536395M. Internet Archive : EB1911WMF. HathiTrust : 102364629. Freebase : /m/0jkw0. English Wikisource : 12543. This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Return to the top of the page.
9月21日 （くがつにじゅういちにち）は、 グレゴリオ暦 で年始から264日目（ 閏年 では265日目）にあたり、年末まであと101日ある。 できごと. 1898年 、 戊戌の政変 。 西太后が光緒帝を幽閉. 1921年 、 オッパウ大爆発. 455年 - この年の 7月9日 に 西ローマ皇帝 に即位した アウィトゥス が ローマ に入る。 1217年 - 北方十字軍: 聖マタイの日の戦い 。 1435年 - アラスの和約 ： フランス と ブルゴーニュ が講和条約を締結 [1] 。 1457年 - アルベルト・ルートヴィヒ大学フライブルク の創立文書（Fundationsbrief）が発効。 1551年 - メキシコ王立教皇大学 （ 英語版 ） 創設。
