Category: Today In History

Henry Hudson 708 – Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert’s patent to explore North America 1609 – Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co 1655 – Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, Saturn’s largest satellite 1807 – First railway passenger service began in England...

Stephen Sondheim 238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors. 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War. 1630...

1760  The Great Fire of Boston 141 – 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1345 – Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought “cause of plague epidemic” 1760 – Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings 1815 – Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published 1861 –...

Jim Baker of PTL  (Praise The Lord) on his way to jail. 1279 – A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sailing for King Francis of France sights land around area of Carolinas. While his place of birth in a small village south of...

Caligula 37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Caligula emperor. 1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake 1673 – Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers 1835 – Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on...