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

DeSoto's Conquest: Clash of Cultures in the Americas (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)

8 min • 6 oktober 2023

A Daily Dose of History (06 Oct 2023)

Today's historical events:

  • Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.
  • Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
  • Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
  • Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.
  • American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
  • French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
  • A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
  • The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
  • The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.

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