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

Maya King Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' of Calakmul (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)

9 min • 3 april 2024

A Daily Dose of History (03 Apr 2024)

Today's historical events:

  • Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
  • Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
  • The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
  • The second of two the treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
  • Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title.
  • Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.
  • The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
  • American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
  • Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.
  • The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

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