A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

A Daily Dose of History (29 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war. Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll. The Dutch city of Dordrech...

A Daily Dose of History (27 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: The Republic of Ragusa is founded. Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England. Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coast south of Cape Cassipore. The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs. In the Battle of Dettingen, Geo...

A Daily Dose of History (26 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar. Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. Pope Benedict II is chosen. En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is bani...

A Daily Dose of History (25 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine. At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran prin...

A Daily Dose of History (24 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of Rome. Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Irelan...

A Daily Dose of History (23 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships. The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of...

A Daily Dose of History (22 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian. The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine). Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Ke...

A Daily Dose of History (21 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date). Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan. French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League...

A Daily Dose of History (20 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory. First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan. The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates. Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is ap...

A Daily Dose of History (19 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea. The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars. The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. English colonists leav...

A Daily Dose of History (18 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China. Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. Byzantine-Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople. Battle of Civitate: Three thousand No...

A Daily Dose of History (17 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. Geoffrey V of Anjou, known as Plantagenet, marries Matilda, daughter of Henry I, King of England, and widow of the Emperor Henry V. Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt in...

A Daily Dose of History (16 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians. Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran). Ming-Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and hi...

A Daily Dose of History (15 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II. Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy. The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner pretender Sverre Sigurdsson. Sigurdsson takes the Norwegian throne and Kin...

A Daily Dose of History (14 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar. First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city of Winchester, abandoned by John, King of England, and soon conquers over half of the kingdom. While taking exile in Fuzhou, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song dynasty...

A Daily Dose of History (13 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years). In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler,...

A Daily Dose of History (12 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis. Peasants' Revolt: In England...

A Daily Dose of History (11 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain". Emperor Taizong of Tang sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of C...

A Daily Dose of History (10 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu. Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem. The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman...

A Daily Dose of History (09 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Nero commits suicide, after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse. Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral...

A Daily Dose of History (08 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome. Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the Brit...

A Daily Dose of History (07 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state. Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany. First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli. Spain and Portugal...

A Daily Dose of History (06 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Constantine VII, the 8-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed by Constantine's uncle Alexander III on his deathbed. Battle of Novara. In the Italian Wars, Swiss troops defeat the French under...

A Daily Dose of History (05 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno. The Battle of Worringen ends the War of the Limburg Succession, with John I, Duke of Brabant, being one of the more important victors. The masque T...

A Daily Dose of History (04 Jun 2025) Today's historical events: King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt. Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castl...