Did_You_Know on Nostr: On this day: 29/01/904 Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to ...
On this day: 29/01/904
Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
On this day: 29/01/946
Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
On this day: 29/01/1258
First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.
On this day: 29/01/1814
War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
On this day: 29/01/1819
Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
On this day: 29/01/1845
"The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
On this day: 29/01/1850
Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
On this day: 29/01/1856
Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
On this day: 29/01/1861
Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
On this day: 29/01/1863
The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
On this day: 29/01/946
Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
On this day: 29/01/1258
First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.
On this day: 29/01/1814
War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
On this day: 29/01/1819
Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
On this day: 29/01/1845
"The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
On this day: 29/01/1850
Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
On this day: 29/01/1856
Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
On this day: 29/01/1861
Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
On this day: 29/01/1863
The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.