All Events

• American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign. · 1862
  
• The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China. · 1839
  
• Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. · 1836
  
• Louis XVIII of France has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber"). · 1816
  
• War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses. · 1812
  
• Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law. · 1798
  
• French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror. · 1793
  
• Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. · 1791
  
• Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown. · 1781
  
• First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia. · 1774
  
• Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska. · 1725
  
• In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry. · 1698
  
• War of the Grand Alliance: A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeats an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay. · 1697
  
• Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers. · 1661
  
• An army led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris. · 1590
  
• Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava · 1367
  
• The Decretals of Gregory IX, a new canonical collection assembled by Raymond of Peñafort, are promulgated. · 1234
  
• Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu. · 917
  
• On the first day of the battle of Frigidus, the Western Roman troops of Arbogast manage to defend their positions against the Eastern Roman troops of emperor Theodosius I. · 394