A Daily Dose of History (07 Aug 2024)
Today's historical events:
- Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
- The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
- Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help.
- Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
- The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
- The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
- The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
- The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741-1743 Russo-Swedish War.
- George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
- The United States Department of War is established.
- American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
- U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
- Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
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