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Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (born 1723)
Richard Price| Year | Name / Event | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 65 | AD 65 | The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested. |
| 531 | Battle of Callinicum | Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria). |
| 1506 | Lisbon massacre | The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics. |
| 1529 | Reformation | Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protest the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms. |
| 1539 | Treaty of Frankfurt (1539) | The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed. |
| 1608 | O'Doherty's rebellion | In Ireland, O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry. |
| 1677 | Siege of Cambrai (1677) | The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops. |
| 1713 | Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor | With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa, was not born until 1717. |
| 1770 | James Cook | Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia. |
| 1770 | Marie Antoinette | Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding. |
| 1775 | American Revolutionary War | American Revolutionary War: The war begins during the Battles of Lexington and Concord with a victory of American minutemen and other militia over British forces, later referred to as the "shot heard round the world". |
| 1775 | Siege of Boston | American Revolutionary War: Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Siege of Boston begins with American militias blocking land access to the British-held city. |
| 1782 | John Adams | John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy. |
| 1809 | Duchy of Warsaw | An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory. |
| 1810 | Venezuela | Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed. |
| 1818 | Augustin-Jean Fresnel | French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals. |
| 1839 | Treaty of London (1839) | The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality. |
| 1861 | American Civil War | American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city. |
| 1903 | Kishinev pogrom | The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world. |
| 1925 | Colo-Colo | Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David Arellano and some of his teammates who had also left the Deportes Magallanes club. |
| 1927 | Mae West | Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. |
| 1936 | Jaffa riots (April 1936) | The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. |
| 1942 | World War II | World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp. |
| 1943 | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. |
| 1943 | Albert Hofmann | Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16, an event commonly known and celebrated as Bicycle Day. |
| 1956 | Grace Kelly | Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco. |
| 1960 | April Revolution | Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign. |
| 1971 | Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president. |
| 1971 | Salyut 1 | Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station. |
| 1971 | Charles Manson | Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders. |
| 1973 | Socialist Party (Portugal) | The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel. |
| 1975 | India | India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia. |
| 1975 | Army of the Republic of Vietnam | South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War. |
| 1976 | 1976 Brownwood tornado | A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1,000 yards (910 m) by the tornado and survived uninjured. |
| 1984 | Advance Australia Fair | Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. |
| 1985 | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives | Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later. |
| 1987 | The Simpsons | The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night". |
| 1989 | Gun turret | A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors. |
| 1993 | Waco siege | The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire. |
| 1995 | Oklahoma City bombing | Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six. |
| 1999 | Bundestag | The German Bundestag returns to Berlin. |
| 2000 | Air Philippines Flight 541 | Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board. |
| 2001 | Space Shuttle Endeavour | Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-100 carrying the Canadarm2 to the International Space Station. |
| 2005 | 2005 conclave | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI. |
| 2011 | Fidel Castro | Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961. |
| 2013 | Boston Marathon bombing | Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown. |
| 2020 | 2020 Nova Scotia attacks | A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history. |
| 2021 | Ingenuity (helicopter) | The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet. |
