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
First Human in Space
Abraham Lincoln dies
Chernobyl disaster
Antoine Lavoisier is executed
Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa
Marco Polo begins journey home
Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden
Korean War begins
United States Declaration of Independence
Storming of the Bastille
20 July plot to assassinate Hitler
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers 'I Have a Dream' speech
World War II Begins
Chilean coup d'état
Camp David Accords signed
People's Republic of China proclaimed
Gregorian calendar is introduced in parts of Europe
Columbus reaches the Americas
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Trafalgar
Wall Street Crash
Norway dissolves union with Sweden
Kristallnacht
Armistice of 11 November 1918
Rosa Parks arrested
Attack on Pearl Harbor
First successful airplane flight
Washington crosses the Delaware
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