På denne dag: 8. mars
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1576: Historisk hendelse
A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first known mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.
1655: Historisk hendelse
The court of Northampton County, Virginia, issued a ruling that made John Casor the first person of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be declared a slave for life as a result of a civil suit.
1658: Historisk hendelse
After a devastating defeat in the Second Northern War, King Frederick III of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his Danish territory to Sweden to save the remainder.
1702: Historisk hendelse
Anne (pictured) became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding her brother-in-law William III.
1736: Historisk hendelse
Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.
1910: Historisk hendelse
French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.
1919: Historisk hendelse
During the Egyptian Revolution, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul and exiled him to Malta.
1924: Historisk hendelse
Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah, killed all 171 miners working there.
1963: Historisk hendelse
The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council for the Revolutionary Command.
1966: Historisk hendelse
Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar topped by a statue of Lord Nelson in Dublin, Ireland, was severely damaged by a bomb.
1978: Historisk hendelse
BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other formats.
1979: Historisk hendelse
Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io (pictured), a moon of Jupiter.
1983: Historisk hendelse
Cold War: In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. president Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
2014: Historisk hendelse
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, with aircraft debris subsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean.
2017: Historisk hendelse
The Azure Window, a limestone natural arch in Gozo, Malta, collapsed during a stor
🔍 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.