På denne dag: 4. januar
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1698: Historisk hendelse
Most of London's Palace of Whitehall, the main residence of English monarchs since 1530, was destroyed by fire.
1798: Historisk hendelse
After his appointment as Prince of Wallachia, Constantine Hangerli arrived in Bucharest to assume the throne.
1853: Historisk hendelse
Solomon Northup (pictured) regained his freedom after having been sold into slavery in the American South; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later became a bestseller.
1909: Historisk hendelse
British explorer Aeneas Mackintosh, a member of the Nimrod Expedition, escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
1936: Historisk hendelse
Billboard published its first music hit parade.
1951: Historisk hendelse
Korean War: Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul from United Nations forces.
1970: Historisk hendelse
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake occurred in Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.
1972: Historisk hendelse
Rose Heilbron (pictured) became the first female judge to sit at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.
1973: Historisk hendelse
Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running sitcom in the world, premiered as an episode of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse.
1977: Historisk hendelse
The English punk-rock band Sex Pistols' lewd and disruptive behaviour at Heathrow Airport prompted the record label EMI to end their contract.
1989: Historisk hendelse
Two American F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers that appeared to be attempting to engage them over the Gulf of Sidra.
2004: Historisk hendelse
Spirit (artist's impression depicted), the first of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, successfully landed on Mars.
2007: Historisk hendelse
Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.
2010: Historisk hendelse
The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest structure, officially opened in Dubai.
2019: Historisk hendelse
A fire in an escape room in Koszalin, Poland, killed five teenagers.
2020: Historisk hendelse
Sembawang Hot Spring Park in Singapore reopened after being redeveloped by the National Parks Board.
🔍 Om kildene og historisk datering
Å tidfeste hendelser tusenvis av år tilbake i tid er en krevende historievitenskapelig oppgave. Før innføringen av den julianske kalenderen (45 f.Kr.) og den gregorianske kalenderen (1582) benyttet ulike sivilisasjoner (romere, grekere, kinesere, babylonere) vidt forskjellige kalendersystemer basert på månesykluser eller lokale embetsperioder.
Slik merker vi dateringene:
• ✓ Sikker datering: Dokumentert i samtidige protokoller, offisielle traktater eller etter standardiserte kalendersystemer.
• ⚠️ Usikker / estimert: Hendelsen er historisk reell, men datoen er tradisjonell, basert på senere krøniker eller lunisolare omregninger.
- Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia On This Day arkiver og historiske registre.
- Store norske leksikon (SNL) – Norsk og internasjonal historie, biografier og årstallsverifisering.
- Encyclopædia Britannica – Verifisering av antikke slag, fredsavtaler og statsdannelser.
- NASA Historical Logs & Science Missions – Romfartshistoriske datoer og oppskytningstelemetri.