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

Mühlberg 1547: Turning Point in Reformation (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)

9 min • 24 april 2025

A Daily Dose of History (24 Apr 2025)

Today's historical events:

  • Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
  • Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
  • The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
  • French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.
  • The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
  • The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9000 houses.
  • Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
  • American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
  • Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
  • The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
  • The Franck-Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
  • The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.

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