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John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (died 1475)
John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen| Year | Name / Event | Description |
|---|---|---|
| -30 | Augustus | Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. |
| 69 | AD 69 | Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis. |
| 527 | Justinian I | Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. |
| 607 | Ono no Imoko | Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). |
| 902 | Taormina | Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily. |
| 1203 | Isaac II Angelos | Isaac II Angelos, restored Byzantine Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade. |
| 1291 | Old Swiss Confederacy | The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter. |
| 1469 | Louis XI | Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise. |
| 1498 | Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela. |
| 1571 | Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) | The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender of Famagusta. |
| 1620 | Speedwell (1577 ship) | Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England. |
| 1664 | Ottoman Empire | Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár. |
| 1714 | Hanover | George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history. |
| 1759 | Seven Years' War | Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments. |
| 1774 | Joseph Priestley | British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. |
| 1798 | French Revolutionary Wars | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action. |
| 1800 | Acts of Union 1800 | The Acts of Union 1800 are passed which merge the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 1801 | First Barbary War | First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya. |
| 1834 | Abolitionism in the United Kingdom | Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843. |
| 1834 | Wilberforce Monument | Construction begins on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull. |
| 1842 | Lombard Street riot | The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. |
| 1849 | Joven Daniel | Joven Daniel wrecks at the coast of Araucanía, Chile, leading to allegations that local Mapuche tribes murdered survivors and kidnapped Elisa Bravo. |
| 1855 | Monte Rosa | The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps. |
| 1863 | Johan Vilhelm Snellman | At the suggestion of Senator J. V. Snellman and the order of Emperor Alexander II, full rights are promised to the Finnish language by a language regulation in the Grand Duchy of Finland. |
| 1876 | Colorado | Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. |
| 1893 | Henry Perky | Henry Perky patents shredded wheat. |
| 1894 | Empire of Japan | The Empire of Japan and Qing China declare war on each other after a week of fighting over Korea, formally inaugurating the First Sino-Japanese War. |
| 1907 | Brownsea Island Scout camp | The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement. |
| 1911 | Harriet Quimby | Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate. |
| 1914 | World War I | World War I: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire. |
| 1914 | Swiss Armed Forces | World War I: The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I. |
| 1915 | Patrick Pearse | Patrick Pearse gives his famous speech "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace" at O'Donovan Rossa's funeral in Dublin. |
| 1927 | Nanchang uprising | The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. |
| 1933 | Bruno Tesch (antifascist) | Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona. |
| 1936 | 1936 Summer Olympics | The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. |
| 1937 | Josip Broz Tito | Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor. |
| 1943 | World War II | World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields. |
| 1944 | Warsaw Uprising | World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland. |
| 1946 | Russian Liberation Army | Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason. |
| 1950 | Guam | Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act. |
| 1957 | NORAD | The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). |
| 1960 | Dahomey | Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France. |
| 1960 | Islamabad | Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. |
| 1961 | Robert McNamara | U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization. |
| 1964 | Belgian Congo | The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| 1965 | Frank Herbert | Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003. |
| 1966 | Charles Whitman | Charles Whitman kills 15 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police. |
| 1966 | Cultural Revolution | Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. |
| 1968 | Hassanal Bolkiah | The coronation of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei, is held. |
| 1971 | The Concert for Bangladesh | The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. |
| 1974 | Cyprus problem | Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones. |
| 1976 | Niki Lauda | Niki Lauda has a severe accident that almost claims his life at the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring. |
| 1980 | Vigdís Finnbogadóttir | Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state. |
| 1980 | Buttevant Rail Disaster | A train crash kills 18 people and injures over 170 more in County Cork, Ireland. |
| 1981 | MTV | MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. |
| 1984 | Peat | Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England. |
| 1988 | Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1980–1989) | A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England. |
| 1990 | Aeroflot Flight E-35D | A plane crash in the Karabakh Range kills 46 people. |
| 1993 | Great Flood of 1993 | The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. |
| 1998 | Puntland | Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, was officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe, Issims and tribal chiefs agreed to create a self-declared government until Somalia recovered. |
| 2004 | Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire | A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay. |
| 2007 | I-35W Mississippi River bridge | The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145. |
| 2008 | Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway | The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world. |
| 2008 | 2008 K2 disaster | Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering. |
| 2017 | Suicide attack | A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people. |
| 2023 | Donald Trump | Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023. |
