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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
1/20 (1576): The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
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6/19 (1985): Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
1/15 (1541): King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
9/11 (1980): A new constitution of Chile is established under the influence of then Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which is subject to controversy in Chile today.
7/4 (1832): Durham University established by Act of Parliament; the first recognized university to be founded in England since Cambridge over 600 years earlier.
5/8 (1924): The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
6/19 (1862): President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories.
The majority of the garrison is massacred the next day.
12/24 (2018): A helicopter crash kills Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor.
Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
7/20 (1848): The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
7/14 (1958): In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.
12/25 (597): Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptise in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons.
4/22 (1864): The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
7/4 (1776): American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
2/14 (1961): Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1/1 (1725): J. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41, which features the trumpet fanfares from the beginning also in the end.
10/31 (1943): World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.
11/9 (1918): Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
They performed ten lunar orbits, took the Earthrise photograph, broadcast live TV pictures, and read the first ten verses of Genesis.
2/14 (1778): The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1/20 (2009): Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President of the United States.