Historical Events Explorer
Browse historical events organized by date. Click on any date to explore events, famous birthdays, and notable deaths.
Act of Union creates the United Kingdom
Louis Daguerre is thought to photograph the Moon
Battle of Princeton boosts the American Revolution
Solomon Northup regains his freedom
Edward the Confessor dies
Harold Godwinson is crowned king of England
Galileo observes four major moons of Jupiter
Moscow bombings
Discovery of first exoplanets
First UN General Assembly session convenes
Surgeon General Warns of Smoking Dangers
Zanzibar Revolution
Ghanaian coup d'état
End of Nigerian Civil War
Elizabeth I is crowned queen of England
Hello, Dolly! opens on Broadway
Stockton schoolyard shooting
Police storm University of Tokyo
Rhode Island oil spill
Amanullah Asaduzzaman killed
First DMC DeLorean Production Car
Tanzanian forces attack Mutukula
Mosaic Web Browser Released
Shoichi Yokoi found
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity lands on Mars
Gujarat Earthquake
Niger coup d'état
Rwandan coup d'état
Battle of Khafji
Hitler Appointed Chancellor
Doug Williams in Super Bowl XXII
Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
F-16 Fighting Falcon first flight
Karla Faye Tucker executed
Afghanistan earthquake
Massacre in Grozny
Washington Naval Treaty signed
Steve Jobs Returns to Apple
Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crash
Copernicium First Created
Spy Exchange
Anna Kournikova worm released
Abraham Lincoln born
Operation Pretense Corruption Indictments
Sri Temasek Declared National Monument
USS Maine Explodes
Ash Wednesday bushfires
Gabonese coup d'état
Sampit conflict
Publication of The Feminine Mystique
Nagorno-Karabakh votes to secede
Assassination of Kurt Eisner
Securitas depot robbery
General Đỗ Cao Trí Dies in Helicopter Crash
Battle of Huế
Suriname coup d'état
Barings Bank collapse
Final Performance of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Selby rail crash
Columbus uses lunar eclipse to influence Jamaican villagers
Hoover Dam completed
First Non-US/Soviet Cosmonaut in Space
First Nazi concentration camp opened
PlayStation 2 released in Japan
Che Guevara Photograph Taken
Muhammad Ali Name Change Announcement
Operation Truong Cong Dinh Begins
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Premiere
Demonstrations suppressed in Tbilisi
Uranus ring system discovered
The Daily Courant begins publication
Lord Ismay appointed NATO Secretary General
US warships enter Black Sea
John McCain Released from POW Camp
Iranian oil industry nationalized
Halabja Chemical Attack
Penmanshiel Tunnel collapse
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft
Jim Bakker Resigns from PTL Club
Zidovudine approved for HIV/AIDS
Dallas "Who Shot J.R.?" Episode Airs
Valeri Polyakov Returns from Mir
Lee Teng-hui Elected President of Taiwan
Prince Edward Island's Provincial Flag Act
Soviet deportations from Baltic states
Book of Mormon published
Netanya suicide bombing and Operation Defensive Shield
Callaghan Government Falls
Peking Man fossils discovered
Vietnam War: Easter Offensive Begins
USS Missouri Decommissioned
Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act signed
John Gotti convicted
US v. Microsoft Antitrust Ruling
NATO is founded
Fan Violence in Istanbul
Jalal Talabani elected President of Iraq
FedEx Flight 705 Hijacking Attempt
Execution of Otto and Elise Hampel
Niger's President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara assassinated
USS Thresher sinks
Australia vs. American Samoa football match
First Human in Space
Explosion at ammunition factory in Finland
Sydney Hailstorm
Abraham Lincoln dies
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation founded
George Lucas begins writing Star Wars treatment
Launch of Aryabhata Satellite
Advance Australia Fair Becomes National Anthem
Columbine High School massacre
Hutt River Province Declared Independent
Elián González raid
Death of Blair Peach
Hubble Space Telescope launch
Raid on gay bar near Chicago
Chernobyl disaster
Indonesian attack on Plaman Mapu repelled
The Dark Side of the Moon Enters Billboard Chart
Collision in Korea
Riverdance premiere
Sicilian separatist attack on May Day marchers
Chaitén volcano eruption
Erich Honecker Becomes First Secretary
First all-female team climbs Manaslu
Twenty-seventh Amendment ratified in the US
Final episode of Friends aired
Circus Wagons Overturn in Dungannon
Antoine Lavoisier is executed
Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse
Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa
David Cameron becomes UK Prime Minister
Mayaguez Incident
Introduction of Falun Gong
Israeli Declaration of Independence
Ryukyu Islands returned to Japan
South Korean Military Coup
Dublin and Monaghan Bombings
Ireland Wins Eurovision
Croatian Independence Referendum
National Diet of Japan opens
Suharto resigns as Indonesian president
Hindu–Muslim riots in Meerut
Toledo Auto-Lite strike violence
Caribbean floods
North Korea Conducts Nuclear and Missile Tests
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Released
Christopher Reeve's accident
Falklands War nuclear weapons decision
Marco Polo begins journey home
Curaçao Uprising
German bombs hit neutral Ireland
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ratified
Air Canada Flight 797 fire
Collision Between HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans
Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to spying
Republic of the Congo Civil War
Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden
Griswold v. Connecticut
Falklands War: Argentine Air Force attacks British ships
Secretariat Wins Belmont Stakes
South Korean Protests for Direct Presidential Elections
Timothy McVeigh Executed
Boeing 777 maiden flight
Shots Fired at Queen Elizabeth II
Falklands War surrender
Western Greece earthquake
First Woman in Space
Guatemalan Revolution Land Reform
First flight of F-117 Nighthawk
United States Grand Prix reduced to six cars
Journalist Bill Stewart Executed
Manchester Baby Runs First Program
Thích Trí Quang arrested
Dodgers infield record begins
Racial tensions lead to fatal shooting in England
Korean War begins
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Released
Deadly police operation in Rio de Janeiro favelas
Stonewall Inn raid
Jayne Mansfield Dies in Car Crash
Baltimore municipal workers strike
Sony Introduces the Walkman
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets published
Carter Authorizes Covert Aid to Mujahideen
United States Declaration of Independence
Indonesia Holds First Direct Presidential Elections
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Bus Attack
South Vietnamese Secret Police Attack Journalists
Sudan Airways Flight 139 Crash
Donkey Kong Released
USA wins FIFA Women's World Cup
Italy wins FIFA World Cup
Princess Mononoke released
Operation Tiger Concludes
Storming of the Bastille
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 Crash
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 Impacts Jupiter
Manchester Metrolink Opens
Murder of Rebecca Schaeffer
Via D'Amelio bombing
20 July plot to assassinate Hitler
Libyan raid on Sallum
Pulitzer Prize-winning photo 'Fire Escape Collapse' taken
Vanessa Williams Resigns as Miss America
Australian swimming team wins relay at Moscow Olympics
Air France Flight 4590 crashes
Trương Đình Dzu jailed
Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt
Rajneesh followers convicted of assassination plot
Essential Commodities Reserves Act
Assassination of Ian Gow
Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery Reopens
Discovery of Lindow Man
Einstein-Szilard letter
Plane Crash Near Agadir, Morocco
Death of Jeanne Calment
Magic: The Gathering released
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Hurricane Diane Forms
Taliban raid Iranian consulate
Jerusalem restaurant bombing
Heron Road Bridge collapse
Ford Pinto Fuel Leak Investigation
The Troubles Erupt in Derry
First Woman Enlists in US Marine Corps
Helios Airways Flight 522 Crash
Republic of Korea established
The Beatles replace drummer
Indonesian Independence Proclaimed
Hildegard Trabant killed at Berlin Wall
Mil Mi-26 helicopter crash in Chechnya
Marchioness disaster
San Quentin Prison Riot
British Airtours Flight 28M fire
Congo Crisis invasion
Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas commits suicide
Voyager 2 Confirms Neptune's Rings
The Beatles Release "Hey Jude"
South Vietnamese Power-Sharing Arrangement
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers 'I Have a Dream' speech
Rajneesh movement bioterror attack
Space Shuttle Discovery Maiden Voyage
Bob Dylan performs at Isle of Wight Festival
World War II Begins
Principality of Sealand Proclaimed
Łachwa Ghetto uprising against Nazis
Little Rock Nine integration
Jochen Rindt killed during Italian Grand Prix practice
Singapore Parliament relocates
Tupac Shakur shot
Tailhook scandal allegations
John Lennon's Imagine album released
Typhoon Ellen Dissipates
Chilean coup d'état
Hurricane Ismael
Super Mario Bros. released in Japan
Herzeg-Bosnia declared unconstitutional
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Boris Yeltsin's Texas grocery store visit
Camp David Accords signed
Dag Hammarskjöld dies in plane crash
Mexico City earthquake
Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech
Defense of Marriage Act passed
Mobile, Alabama train derailment
Firefox Web Browser Released
Warren Commission report released
North Yemen Civil War Begins
Stanislav Petrov False Alarm
Iran breaks Iraqi siege of Abadan
Spaghetti House Siege
Lockheed YF-22 Prototype First Flight
ICANN incorporated
People's Republic of China proclaimed
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu re-elected President of South Vietnam
Nadine Gordimer wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Gregorian calendar is introduced in parts of Europe
Order of the Solar Temple mass murder-suicide
First exoplanet discovered
Croatian War of Independence
Operation Southern Move
Knowsley Hall Shootings
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty takes effect
Typhoon Nora dissipates
Columbus reaches the Americas
Loyalist Ceasefire Announced
Battle of Hastings
Kiholo Bay Earthquake
China becomes a nuclear power
Lake Burley Griffin Inaugurated
First Cat in Space
Iran–Iraq War: U.S. destroys Iranian oil platforms
Aeroflot Flight 6502 Crash
Battle of Trafalgar
Nixon in China premiere
Grand Theft Auto III Released
Wall Street Crash
Heinrich Himmler orders crackdown on Edelweiss Pirates
Norway dissolves union with Sweden
Armenian Parliament Shooting
Gateway Arch completed
John Glenn Returns to Space
Madrid Conference
EgyptAir Flight 990 Crash
Formation of Indian States
Velma Barfield Executed
Godzilla film released in Japan
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Meir Kahane assassinated
Kelly Barnes Dam Collapse
Singapore MRT Line Opens
Enniskillen Bombing
Kristallnacht
Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa
Armistice of 11 November 1918
Mid-air collision near New Delhi
Amityville murders
Battle of the Dalmatian Channels Begins
Heinrich Himmler orders Romani to concentration camps
Luke and Laura wedding on General Hospital
The Little Mermaid released
Texas A&M Bonfire collapse
Luis Miguel's Romance album release
Windows 1.0 Released
God Defend New Zealand National Anthem
Mike Tyson becomes youngest heavyweight champion
Irpinia earthquake in Italy
D. B. Cooper hijacks airplane
Yukio Mishima commits ritual suicide
Southern Television Broadcast Interruption
Helen Clark becomes New Zealand Prime Minister
Burundi Republic Declared
Tellico Dam project completed
Meteorite Injury in Sylacauga, Alabama
End of Reforms in Socialist Republic of Croatia
Rosa Parks arrested
Mary Robinson becomes first female President of Ireland
Led Zeppelin disbands
Great Smog of London begins
Montreal Massacre
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Baghdad Bombings
Mumia Abu-Jamal arrested for murder
Raúl Alfonsín becomes President of Argentina
Mexican drug war begins
Tumaco earthquake and tsunami
IRA firefight in County Fermanagh
Kosovo War ambush
Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death
Bangladesh Liberation War ends
First successful airplane flight
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Premiere
Aeroflot Flight 101/435 hijacked
MV Doña Paz disaster
Antonov An-225 Mriya makes first flight
Hussein Farrah Aidid Relinquishes Title
Tokyo Tower Opens
Washington, D.C. Home Rule Granted
Washington crosses the Delaware
Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Clonaid claims first human clone
Karachi suicide bombing
Richard Feynman's Nanotechnology Speech
MV Senopati Nusantara sinks
Euro Exchange Rates Frozen
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