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

Betrayal and Power: The Plot to Assassinate Nero (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)

11 min • 19 april 2024

A Daily Dose of History (19 Apr 2024)

Today's historical events:

  • The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
  • Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
  • Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself basileus.
  • The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are being slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
  • Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
  • In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.
  • The town of Uusikaupunki (Swedish: Nystad, lit. "New Town") was founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
  • The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
  • With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa was not born until 1717.
  • Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
  • Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
  • American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
  • John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
  • An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.

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