Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia.

Saint BonifaceMissionaryPaganismDokkumFrisia

Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.

KrakówCity rights

Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles of Salerno.

Battle of the Gulf of NaplesRoger of LauriaPeter III of AragonCharles II of Naples

The city of Breda surrenders to the Spanish tercios under general Ambrosio Spinola.

BredaTercioAmbrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases

The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.

Battle of New Ross (1798)Irish Rebellion of 1798Munster

The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.

Great LakesPS Frontenac

HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.

HMS PickleCuba

The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe.

June RebellionLouis Philippe

Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.

HoustonRepublic of Texas

Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.

Constitutional monarchyConstitution of Denmark

Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

Harriet Beecher StoweSlaveryUncle Tom's CabinAbolitionism in the United States

As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.

Treaty of SaigonVietnamTrương ĐịnhTự Đức

American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.

American Civil WarBattle of PiedmontUnion (American Civil War)GeneralDavid Hunter

The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.

Orient Express

The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.

1888 Río de la Plata earthquake

Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.

Second Boer WarPretoria

Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

Constitution of DenmarkWomen's suffrage

Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.

Louis BrandeisJustice of the United States Supreme CourtHistory of Jews in the United States

The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.

Arab RevoltOttoman Empire

World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".

World War IConscription

The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.

United States CongressGold standardGold

World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").

World War IIBattle of FranceRiver SommeFall Rot

World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.

ChongqingAsphyxiaBombing of Chongqing

World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.

Kingdom of BulgariaKingdom of HungaryKingdom of Romania

World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.

Nazi GermanyAtlantic WallNormandyD-Day

The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.

Allied Control Council

A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.

La Salle HotelIllinois

Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.

Marshall PlanHarvard UniversityUnited States Secretary of StateGeorge Marshall

Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.

ThailandOrapin ChaiyakanWomen in ThailandThailand's Parliament

Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.

TitusRoman EmpireRoman armyJerusalemSiege of Jerusalem (70)