First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.

First CrusadeBattle of AscalonGodfrey of BouillonFatimid CaliphateAl-Afdal Shahanshah

Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.

Battle of DidgoriGeorgia (country)David IV of GeorgiaSeljuq dynastyIlghazi

Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.

Battle of HarimNur ad-Din ZangiCrusadesCounty of TripoliPrincipality of Antioch

Signature of the Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod Republic, that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time.

Treaty of NöteborgNovgorod Republic

Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.

Christopher ColumbusCanary Islands

First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.

Battle of ZonchioRepublic of VeniceOttoman Empire

The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.

Louis XIII of FranceCardinal Richelieu

Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.

Praying IndianJohn AldermanMetacometWampanoag peopleKing Philip's War

Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.

Battle of Mohács (1687)Charles V, Duke of LorraineOttoman Empire

Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.

Treaty of AllahabadCompany rule in India

The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.

Rhône (department)Loire (department)Departments of FranceRhône-et-Loire

Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.

Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos AiresBuenos AiresArgentinaBritish invasions of the River Plate

French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.

William I of the NetherlandsTen Days' CampaignBelgian Revolution

Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

Isaac SingerSewing machine

Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.

Joseph Lister

The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

QuaggaNatura Artis MagistraAmsterdam

The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.

Flag of HawaiiʻIolani PalaceFlag of the United StatesRepublic of Hawaii

World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.

World War IAustria-HungaryBritish Empire

World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver Helmets a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium.

Battle of HalenCavalryHalen

Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

Waffen-SSSant'Anna di Stazzema massacre

Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.

Nazi GermanyWola massacre

Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

AlençonPhilippe Leclerc de HauteclocqueNazism

Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.

Korean WarBloody Gulch massacreKorean People's Army

The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.

Night of the Murdered Poets

The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.

Nuclear weapons testingThermonuclear weaponSoviet atomic bomb projectJoe 4

The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people were killed.

1953 Ionian earthquakeIonian IslandsMercalli intensity scale

Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.

Echo 1ACommunications satellite

South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.

South AfricaOlympic GamesApartheid in South Africa

Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

Apprentice Boys of DerryDerryBattle of the Bogside

Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War

PalestiniansTel al-Zaatar massacreLebanese Civil War