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Date | Event |
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Sep 29, 522 BC |
Darius I of Persia kills Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. |
Sep 29, 480 BC |
Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I. |
Sep 29, 61 BC |
Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. |
Sep 29, 219 |
Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome |
Sep 29, 235 |
St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
Sep 29, 440 |
Pope Leo I the Great, installed |
Sep 29, 855 |
Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
Sep 29, 1227 |
Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II |
Sep 29, 1349 |
People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells |
Sep 29, 1364 |
Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French in Brittany |
Sep 29, 1521 |
Turkish troops occupy Belgrade |
Sep 29, 1564 |
Robert Dudley becomes Earl of Leicester |
Sep 29, 1567 |
War of Religion breaks out in France - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX |
Sep 29, 1567 |
At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason. |
Sep 29, 1608 |
Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists |
Sep 29, 1650 |
2nd Fronde-uprising ends |
Sep 29, 1650 |
Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England) |
Sep 29, 1678 |
France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty |
Sep 29, 1785 |
Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Kraków Poland |
Sep 29, 1789 |
1st congress adjourns |
Sep 29, 1789 |
US War Dept established a regular army |
Sep 29, 1793 |
Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine |
Sep 29, 1815 |
King Willem I forms Dutch Order of the Lion |
Sep 29, 1829 |
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police - hence the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers". |
Sep 29, 1848 |
Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence. |
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