Today in History
On This Day In History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 30, 1077 |
Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV |
Jan 30, 1349 |
Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king |
Jan 30, 1349 |
Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred |
Jan 30, 1467 |
Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratrici |
Jan 30, 1487 |
Bell chimes invented |
Jan 30, 1522 |
Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland |
Jan 30, 1544 |
Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland |
Jan 30, 1592 |
Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII |
Jan 30, 1647 |
Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400 |
Jan 30, 1648 |
Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years War |
Jan 30, 1661 |
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years. |
Jan 30, 1667 |
Treaty/Truce of Andrusovo signed between Tsardom of Russia & Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
Jan 30, 1713 |
England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty |
Jan 30, 1774 |
Captain Cook reaches 71°10' south, 1820km from south pole (record) |
Jan 30, 1781 |
Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland |
Jan 30, 1790 |
Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor |
Jan 30, 1797 |
Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks |
Jan 30, 1798 |
Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument |
Jan 30, 1800 |
US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%) |
Jan 30, 1804 |
Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River |
Jan 30, 1806 |
Prussia takes possession of Hanover |
Jan 30, 1806 |
The original Lower Trenton Toll Bridge, which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. A later bridge opened in 1935 is also known as the Trenton Makes - the World Takes Bridge. |
Jan 30, 1815 |
Burned US Library of Congress reestablished with Thomas Jefferson's 6500 vols |
Jan 30, 1818 |
Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears" |
Jan 30, 1820 |
British explorer Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica claims for Britain |
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