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Global2003
On this day (05/28), 23 years ago: Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
Peter John Hollingworth was an Australian bishop who served as Governor-General of Australia from 2001 until his resignation in 2003. - summary
Global1992
On this day (07/18), 34 years ago: A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
Founding year: 1992 - key fact
Singapore1960Launches
The founding of the Stock Exchange of Singapore on June 23, 1960, laid the institutional groundwork for the city-state's rise as a regional financial center.
Founding Year: 1960 - key fact
Indonesia1955Protests
The Bandung Conference of April 1955 brought together leaders from 29 Asian and African nations-most freshly liberated from colonial rule-to a conference in Indonesia's second-largest city. - summary
India1916Elections
Hindu-Muslim unity for electoral reform briefly united Indian nationalist movements before communal tensions fractured the alliance.
The Lucknow Pact was an agreement reached between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League (AIML) at a joint session of both the parties held in Lucknow in December 1916. - summary
Italy1895Tech launches
In 1895, a 21-year-old Italian inventor named Guglielmo Marconi conducted an experiment on his family's property near Bologna that would eventually dismantle the wire-based telegraph monopoly. - summary
India1857Wars
On May 10, 1857, Indian soldiers at the Meerut cantonment near Delhi refused to load their rifles with cartridges allegedly greased with cow and pig fat-a calculated insult to both Hindu and Muslim troops. - summary
United States1857Elections
Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court Affirms Slavery
Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court Affirms Slavery (1857) - United States. - summary
United Kingdom1829Tech launches
The Rainhill Trials crowned George Stephenson's Rocket as the definitive locomotive design, securing steam power as the engine of the railway age and industrial transformation.
It is fuelled by burning combustible material to heat water in the locomotive's boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1,600 to 1,700 times. - summary
United Kingdom1821Disasters
On the afternoon of May 9, 1821, Chepstow Castle-a Norman stronghold perched above the Wye River on the Welsh-English border-became the site of a catastrophic explosion. - summary
Belgium1815Wars
Wellington and Blücher's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 ended French hegemony and reordered European power for decades.
Campaign duration: June 1–18, 1815 - key fact
Iran1780Disasters
One of history's deadliest earthquakes killed an estimated 100,000 people in Tabriz, marking a catastrophic natural disaster in the Safavid era.
Date: September 4, 1780 - key fact
India1500Wars
Vedic-era conflict immortalized in the Rigveda, providing earliest literary evidence of organized inter-tribal warfare in South Asia.
The Battle of the Ten Kings was first alluded to in the 7th Mandala of the Rigveda (RV) and took place on the bank of river Parushni between a king of the Bharata tribe named Sudas, and a confederation of Puru, Yadu, … - summary
France843Wars
The partition of Charlemagne's empire established the modern borders of France, Germany, and Italy, codifying European geopolitics for centuries.
The Treaty of Verdun, agreed to on 10 August 843, ended the Carolingian civil war and divided the Carolingian Empire between Lothair I, Louis II and Charles II, the surviving sons of the emperor Louis I. - summary
France732Wars
Charles Martel's defeat of the Umayyad Caliphate halted Islamic expansion into Western Europe and secured Frankish dominance of the continent.
The Battle of Tours, also called the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs, was fought on 10 October 732, and was an important battle during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul. - summary
Turkey325Festivals
Constantine convened bishops to resolve theological schisms and standardize Christian orthodoxy, establishing institutional foundations for the faith's global dominance.
It met from May until the end of July 325. - summary
Italy79Disasters
Vesuvius's catastrophic eruption buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash and creating an unparalleled archaeological record.
Vesuvius violently ejected a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times … - summary
Germany9Wars
Germanic tribes under Arminius annihilate three Roman legions in a devastating ambush, halting Roman expansion into Central Europe and reshaping the continent's political map for centuries.
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, also called the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster by Roman historians, was a major battle fought between an alliance of Germanic peoples and the Roman Empire between 8 and 11 Septem… - summary
