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Papal Election
Innocent VIII is elected pope after the death of Sixtus IV.
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Innocent VIII is elected pope after the death of Sixtus IV.
Cromwell positions Parliamentarian artillery on the heights around Red Hill and Perry Wood east of Worcester.
Keith joins the Royalist sortie against Cromwell's artillery positions after bombardment of Worcester begins.
Middleton leads part of a fifteen-hundred-man Royalist sortie against the Parliamentarian artillery, but the attack fails.
Cromwell's artillery begins bombarding Worcester from positions around Perry Wood as the Parliamentarian siege lines tighten.
Fleetwood moves about eleven thousand Parliamentarian troops to the west bank of the Severn for the southern approach to Worcester.
Lambert's forces repair Upton Bridge after its recapture, restoring a vital Parliamentarian route toward Worcester.
Charles II gives assent to the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, confirming a broad political pardon.
Gives royal assent to the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, pardoning most former opponents.
Victor Amadeus II signs a separate peace with France and withdraws Savoy from the Grand Alliance.
Louis XIV concludes peace with Victor Amadeus II, removing Savoy from the coalition against France.
The Allied siege of Venlo begins during Marlborough's opening campaign.
Captures Bethune during the northern France campaign.
Helps Australia defeat England by seven runs at The Oval.
Captains Australia to a seven-run victory over England.
The upset at The Oval becomes the origin of the Ashes tradition.
His bowling is central to the match that inspires the Ashes legend.
Temporarily heads the government after Balmaceda loses control of Santiago.
Hamilton's August offensive ends without gaining the decisive heights or breaking the strategic deadlock.
Throssell helps hold captured trenches during repeated Ottoman bomb attacks at Hill 60.
Godley ends further attacks after Allied troops fail to secure the summit but establish a limited connection with Suvla.
Fry commands a combined squadron as the 10th Light Horse fights through captured trenches with bombs and rifles before dawn.
Introduces conscription through the Military Service Act.
Relies on railway workers and political activists to disrupt communications and troop movements toward Petrograd.
Seeks support from loyal military units as Kornilov's advance begins losing momentum outside the capital.
His attempted move on Petrograd loses momentum as railway workers intervene.
Receives reports that railway workers are delaying troop movements and disrupting communications with advancing units.
Finds support weakening as soldiers encounter political delegations urging them not to move against Petrograd.
Bolshevik activists help organise resistance while railway workers and soldiers obstruct the advance toward Petrograd.
The crisis allows Bolshevik organisers to rebuild influence among workers after the repression following the July Days.
Railway workers disrupt troop movements toward Petrograd.
Russell's New Zealand Division captures Bapaume during the Allied advance.
Haig's Third Army continues pressure as British forces retake Bapaume during the Hundred Days.
Protests against President Friedrich Ebert's nationwide state of emergency, regarding federal intervention as a threat to Bavarian autonomy.
French authorities enlarge the royal domain after Thai gains in western Laos
Conant's status report, relayed through Vannevar Bush to the Secretary of War, reports encouraging results from Oppenheimer's bomb-design group.
The Scavenius Government ends in Copenhagen, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Denmark.
German forces occupy Slovakia during the uprising.
Orders the Slovak National Uprising to begin.
Directs the scientific programme producing the first Soviet atomic bomb test.
The Soviet Union conducts its first atomic bomb test, ending the United States nuclear monopoly.
The achievement marks rds-1 test as an important Russian scientific milestone.
The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb.
His government ends in Helsinki, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Finland.
Takes office as Prime Minister of Finland and forms a government in Helsinki.
Shore declared immediately his belief in state-controlled economic planning, together with the regulation of prices and wages. Appointed Secretary of State for Economic Affairs at the Department of Economic Affairs
Appointed Secretary of State for Economic Affairs at the Department of Economic Affairs
Perform at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.
Helps organize the National Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War
Publicly argues that the danger in campaign wrongdoing lies in covering it up and says White House Counsel John Dean is monitoring the investigation.
Addresses Unionists on the EEC, Northern Ireland and inflation as the October general election approaches.
Congress approved the law reserving the petroleum industry to the state.
Paz Estenssoro issues Supreme Decree 21060 to attack hyperinflation and restructure the economy
Paz Estenssoro promulgates Supreme Decree 21060 to halt hyperinflation and liberalise the economy.
Hubble resolves a gaseous ring around Supernova 1987A in unprecedented detail during one of the observatory's earliest science investigations.
Closes the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site after decades of Soviet nuclear testing.
Chairs the tenth regular session of UNMOVIC Commissioners.
The Commission assesses preparations as diplomatic pressure on Iraq increases.
Releases Modern Times.
Is named John McCain's Republican running mate
Inter defeat AC Milan 4-0 in an emphatic early-season derby victory.
Real Madrid defeat Barcelona on away goals to win the Spanish Super Cup.
Loses a House of Commons vote on possible military action after chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
New Horizons begins its fourth major hibernation cycle before the final approach to Pluto.
The IAEA opens its Low Enriched Uranium Bank in Kazakhstan as a fuel assurance mechanism.
Makes his competitive Barcelona first-team debut against Getafe at seventeen years of age.
Killed by a tear gas projectile during the National Chicano Moratorium
Death of Ingrid Bergman
Death of Lee Marvin
Between 14 and 26 Castilian ships were captured, and some were sunk, while 2 English vessels were sunk and many suffered heavy losses.
Edward III and the Black Prince commanded 50 English ships against 44 larger Castilian and Genoese vessels commanded by Don Carlos de la Cerda.
The Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer, also called the Battle of Winchelsea, was an English naval victory.
Between 14 and 26 Castilian ships were captured, and some were sunk, while 2 English vessels were sunk and many suffered heavy losses
Defeats a Castilian fleet in the Channel
Edward III and the Black Prince commanded 50 English ships against 44 larger Castilian and Genoese vessels commanded by Don Carlos de la Cerda.
The Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer, also called the Battle of Winchelsea, was an English naval victory.
Between 14 and 26 Castilian ships were captured, and some were sunk, while 2 English vessels were sunk and many suffered heavy losses.
Edward III and the Black Prince commanded 50 English ships against 44 larger Castilian and Genoese vessels commanded by Don Carlos de la Cerda.
The Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer, also called the Battle of Winchelsea, was an English naval victory.
His defeat shifts Slovak lands toward Habsburg rule.
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