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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Alhambra Decree: Dark Side of Religious Intolerance (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)

9 min • 31 mars 2025

A Daily Dose of History (31 Mar 2025)

Today's historical events:

  • Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
  • Ferdinand Magellan and fifty of his men came ashore to present-day Limasawa to participate in the first Catholic mass in the Philippines.
  • The Long Parliament presents the Humble Petition and Advice offering Oliver Cromwell the British throne, which he eventually declines.
  • A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
  • The 1761 Lisbon earthquake strikes off the Iberian Peninsula with an estimated magnitude of 8.5, six years after another quake destroyed the city.
  • American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
  • The Sixth Coalition occupies Paris after Napoleon's Grande Armée capitulates.
  • Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
  • The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
  • Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.

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