Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived in Medina

MuhammadAbu BakrMedina

Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.

Agnes of PoitouAndrew I of HungaryBurgenland

Battle of Fulford, Viking Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin

Battle of FulfordHarald HardradaMorcarEdwin, Earl of Mercia

Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

SaladinSiege of Jerusalem (1187)

The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.

Great Prussian UprisingOld PrussiansTeutonic Knights

Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.

Cardinal (Catholicism)Antipope Clement VIIPapal schism

The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.

1498 Nankai earthquakeTsunamiAmitābhaKōtoku-inKamakura, Kanagawa

Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

Ferdinand MagellanSanlúcar de Barrameda

Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.

Diego de MontemayorMonterreyNew Spain

The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688-97).

Treaty of RyswickHoly Roman EmpireDutch RepublicNine Years' War

The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.

Walking PurchaseLenape-DelawarePennsylvania Colony

French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy.

War of the First CoalitionBattle of Valmy

Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.

Porto AlegreEmpire of BrazilRio Grande do SulRagamuffin War

Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in Crimea.

Battle of AlmaCrimea

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.

Indian Rebellion of 1857DelhiEast India Company

The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits Canada and the United States.

Prince of WalesEdward VII of the United Kingdom

American Civil War: The conclusion of the Battle of Chickamauga in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.

American Civil WarBattle of ChickamaugaWestern Theater of the American Civil War

Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy, ending de facto the temporal power of popes.

BersaglieriCapture of RomePorta PiaItalian unification

Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.

BishopJohn Coleridge PattesonMartyrNukapuPolynesian outlier

U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.

Chester A. ArthurJames A. Garfield

Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.

Charles DuryeaGasolineAutomobile

Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Cunard LineRMS Mauretania (1906)Swan Hunter & Wigham RichardsonNewcastle upon Tyne

The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.

Parliament of the United KingdomSouth Africa Act 1909Union of South AfricaCape ColonyColony of Natal

The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.

SS France (1910)

White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.

White Star LineRMS OlympicHMS Hawke (1891)

The Holocaust in Lithuania: Four hundred three Jews (128 men, 176 women and 99 children) were murdered by Einsatzkommando 3 and the local police in Nemenčinė.

The Holocaust in LithuaniaNemenčinė

The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German einsatzgruppen murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.

The Holocaust in UkraineEinsatzgruppenLetychiv

The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.

Cannes Film Festival

Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

Konstantinos DovasList of Prime Ministers of Greece

James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

James MeredithAfrican AmericanUniversity of Mississippi