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

Avitus' Gallic Army: Rome's Consolidation & Power Struggles (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)

9 min • 21 september 2023

A Daily Dose of History (21 Sep 2023)

Today's historical events:

  • Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
  • The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders.
  • Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
  • The Congress of Arras causes Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.
  • A Hanoverian army is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
  • American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
  • French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
  • The crew of schooner Ancud, including John Williams Wilson, takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the Chilean government.
  • Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
  • Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
  • A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.

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