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

Rise of Mongol Empire: Capture of Zhongdu (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)

9 min • 1 juni 2024

A Daily Dose of History (01 Jun 2024)

Today's historical events:

  • Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
  • Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
  • Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
  • A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.[citation needed]
  • Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
  • Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
  • The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
  • In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
  • Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675-79).
  • The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
  • Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. Both he and his horse, Vonk, drowned on his eighth attempt.

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