491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.
1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
1803 – French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand offered to sell the United States the entire Louisiana Territory. For the French ruler Napoleon, the sale of the whole of Louisiana to the United States was not done out of generosity or friendship but out of strategic concerns towards Great Britain. According to Napoleon, “The sale [of Louisiana] assures forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a rival who, sooner or later, will humble her pride.”
1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
1814 – After a series of military setbacks culminating in the fall of Paris, the Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time as emperor of France, and orders him into exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba.
1856 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
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1900 – The Navy purchases the first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland.
1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
1913 – The Nevill Ground's pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.
1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1921 – Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax, at 2 cents a package.
1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.
1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.
1976 – The Apple I is created.
1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
1989 – Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announces Hugo Chávez resignation on national TV.
2006 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
2007 – 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
2012 – An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Leo the Great, Pope of Rome, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
Contemporary Western
Antipas of Pergamum
Gemma Galgani
Godeberta
Guthlac of Crowland
Stanislaus of Szczepanów
Gemma Galgani
Godeberta
Guthlac of Crowland
Stanislaus of Szczepanów
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
George Selwyn (Anglicanism)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyrs Processus and Martinian of Rome (c. 67)
Hieromartyr Antipas of Pergamum, Bishop of Pergamon (92),
disciple of St. John the Theologian
Hieromartyr Domninus (Domnion), Bishop of Salona in Dalmatia,
and eight soldiers with him (c. 100)
Saint Philip of Gortyna, Bishop of Gortyna on Crete (180)
Venerable Pharmuthius the Recluse, Anchorite of Egypt (4th century)
Venerable-Martyr Bacchus, of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified (8th c.)
Venerable John (820), disciple of Venerable Gregory of Decapolis
Venerable Tryfaini and Matrona of Cyzicus
Hieromartyr Antipas of Pergamum, Bishop of Pergamon (92),
disciple of St. John the Theologian
Hieromartyr Domninus (Domnion), Bishop of Salona in Dalmatia,
and eight soldiers with him (c. 100)
Saint Philip of Gortyna, Bishop of Gortyna on Crete (180)
Venerable Pharmuthius the Recluse, Anchorite of Egypt (4th century)
Venerable-Martyr Bacchus, of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified (8th c.)
Venerable John (820), disciple of Venerable Gregory of Decapolis
Venerable Tryfaini and Matrona of Cyzicus
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Machai, a disciple of St Patrick who founded a monastery
on the Isle of Bute in Scotland (5th c.)
Saint Isaac of Spoleto (Isaac of Monteluco), a Syrian monk who fled the Monophysite
persecution and founded a monastery in Monteluco near Spoleto (c. 550)
Saint Maedhog (Aedhan, Mogue), an abbot whose main monastery was Clonmore
in Ireland (6th c.)
Saint Guthlac of Crowland, hermit of Crowland (England) (714)
Saint Agericus (Aguy, Airy), Abbot of St Martin's in Tours (680)
Saint Godebertha, a nun at Noyon and the first abbess of the convent founded there (c. 700)
on the Isle of Bute in Scotland (5th c.)
Saint Isaac of Spoleto (Isaac of Monteluco), a Syrian monk who fled the Monophysite
persecution and founded a monastery in Monteluco near Spoleto (c. 550)
Saint Maedhog (Aedhan, Mogue), an abbot whose main monastery was Clonmore
in Ireland (6th c.)
Saint Guthlac of Crowland, hermit of Crowland (England) (714)
Saint Agericus (Aguy, Airy), Abbot of St Martin's in Tours (680)
Saint Godebertha, a nun at Noyon and the first abbess of the convent founded there (c. 700)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint George, founder of the Monastery of Saint John Chrysostomos,
north of Koutsovendis, in Cyprus (c. 1070)
Venerable James, Abbot of Zhelezny Bor (1442), and his fellow ascetic
St. James of Bryleevsk (15th c.)
Venerable Euthymius (1456) and Chariton (1509), Abbots of Syanzhema (Vologda)
Saint Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver (1576)
Venerable Callinicus of Cernica (Kallinikos), Bishop of Rimnic in Romania (1868)
north of Koutsovendis, in Cyprus (c. 1070)
Venerable James, Abbot of Zhelezny Bor (1442), and his fellow ascetic
St. James of Bryleevsk (15th c.)
Venerable Euthymius (1456) and Chariton (1509), Abbots of Syanzhema (Vologda)
Saint Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver (1576)
Venerable Callinicus of Cernica (Kallinikos), Bishop of Rimnic in Romania (1868)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Martyrs Peter Zhukov and Prochorus Mikhailov, of Tver (1918)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Gavarin, Priest (1938)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Gavarin, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos at Pochaev,
and the Leaving of her sacred Footprint there ("the Footprint") (1340)
Bizhevska Icon of the Mother of God at Zhytomyr
Repose of Elder Eulogius of St. George Kellion, Mt. Athos (1948)
and the Leaving of her sacred Footprint there ("the Footprint") (1340)
Bizhevska Icon of the Mother of God at Zhytomyr
Repose of Elder Eulogius of St. George Kellion, Mt. Athos (1948)
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