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

Titus and the Fall of Jerusalem's Temple (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)

10 min • 30 augusti 2024

A Daily Dose of History (30 Aug 2024)

Today's historical events:

  • Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.
  • Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
  • The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
  • Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
  • Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
  • King James of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry.
  • The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.
  • Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
  • Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.
  • HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
  • The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
  • Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
  • First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

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