This day in #History

This day in #History
October 8th


314 - Battle at Cibalae : emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius

451 - Council of Chalcedon (4 th ecumenical council ) opens

876 - Battle at Andernach : Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare

1075 - Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia .

1085 - San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated

1480 - Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde , and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro - Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde .

1492 - Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico

1600 - San Marino adopts constitution

1604 - Supernova "Kepler' s nova" 1st sighted

1625 - Admiral George Villiers ' fleet sails from
Plymouth to Cadiz

1633 - Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1 st
government

1690 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade

1712 - French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on
Suriname coast

1740 - Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia

1769 - Captain James Cook is the first European to land in New Zealand (Poverty bay)

1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army

1806 - British forces lay siege to French port of
Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve

1813 - Treaty of Ried between Bayern & Austria

1815 - Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo Italy

1818 - 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded
gloves

1821 - The government of General
José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy .

1822 - 1 st eruption of Galunggung ( Java) sends boiling sludge into valley

1835 - Charles Darwin reaches James Island,
Galapagos archipelago , on HMS Beagle

1840 - 1 st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed

1856 - The Second Opium War or 2nd Anglo -
Chinese War : begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River .

1860 - Telegraph line between LA & SF opens

1862 - Battle of Perryville, KY- Confederate invasion halted

1862 - Otto von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire

1879 - War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos , Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter .

1912 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey,
beginning 1 st Balkan War

1917 - Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet

1933 - Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish
government

1821 - The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy .

1932 - The Indian Air Force is established

1962 - Algeria admitted as 109 th member of UN

1963 - Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland
possessions to Kenya

1970 - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1973 - Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece

2012 - Hugo Chávez is re - elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term

2012 - Mustafa A. G . Abushagur , the first elected Libyan Prime Minister , is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament

2012 - John B . Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent


DEATHS

705 - Abd al -Malik , kalief of Damascus, dies

976 - Jelena of Zadar , Croatian queen

1286 - John I of Dreux , Duke of Brittany (b . 1217)

1317 - Fushimi , Emperor of Japan (b . 1265)

1945 - Herman T Colenbrander , historian, dies at 73

1869 - Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853  -1857 ), dies in Concord NH at 64