All Events

• Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb. · 1879
  
• The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in the western Indian Territory. · 1867
  
• American Civil War: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. · 1861
  
• Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War. · 1854
  
• Portland cement is patented. · 1824
  
• Napoleonic Wars: A British fleet led by Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve in the Battle of Trafalgar. · 1805
  
• In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched. · 1797
  
• The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty". · 1774
  
• Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan. · 1600
  
• João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins". · 1520
  
• Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. · 1512
  
• Japanese Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu. · 1392
  
• Election of Gregory VIII following the death of Pope Urban III. · 1187
  
• Zengi, atabeg of Aleppo, takes Baalbek from the Burid dynasty. · 1139
  
• First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch. · 1097
  
• A Seljuk Turkish army successfully ambushes the People's Crusade at the Battle of Civetot. · 1096
  
• El Cid and his forces defeat a larger army of the Almoravids in the battle of Cuarte. · 1094
  
• Election of Pope Conon following the death of Pope John V. · 685
  
• Sixty-five days after being exiled by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, Pope Eusebius dies. · 310