På denne dag: 18. mars
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
363: Historisk hendelse
A fire began in Rome that resulted in the destruction of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus.
1241: Historisk hendelse
First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongol forces defeated the Polish armies of Sandomierz and Kraków at the Battle of Chmielnik.
1277: Historisk hendelse
Charles I of Anjou acquired a claim on the Kingdom of Jerusalem in exchange for a significant sum of money.
1608: Historisk hendelse
Susenyos I was formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1793: Historisk hendelse
Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the Republic of Mainz, becoming the first republican state in Germany.
1838: Historisk hendelse
The British soldier-explorer John Wood came close to rediscovering the ancient Greco-Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum in modern Afghanistan.
1892: Historisk hendelse
Canadian governor general Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate an award to Canada's top-ranked amateur ice hockey club, now known as the Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America.
1901: Historisk hendelse
The construction of the House with Chimaeras (pictured) commenced in Kyiv.
1906: Historisk hendelse
Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane (pictured) with an unassisted takeoff.
1915: Historisk hendelse
First World War: In one of the largest naval battles of the Gallipoli campaign, Ottoman forces sank three Allied battleships and severely damaged three others.
1921: Historisk hendelse
Russian Civil War: Bolshevik forces suppressed a rebellion of sailors and civilians in Kronstadt.
1925: Historisk hendelse
The deadliest tornado in U.S. history spawned in Missouri and traveled more than 219 miles (352 km) across Illinois and Indiana, leaving one of the longest continuous tornado tracks ever recorded.
1959: Historisk hendelse
Tibetan uprising: After the 14th Dalai Lama sought refuge at Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, Chinese forces bombarded the monastery, inflicting severe destruction and killing hundreds of Buddhist monks.
1965: Historisk hendelse
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov ventured outside the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2, becoming the first person to walk in space.
1969: Historisk hendelse
Vietnam War: The United States began secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
1970: Historisk hendelse
U.S. postal workers began an eight-day strike after Congress raised their wages by only 4 percent despite increasing its own pay by 41 percent.
1977: Historisk hendelse
The punk group the Clash released their first single, "White Riot", described as their "most controversial song" due to its lyrics about class economics and race.
1985: Historisk hendelse
The first episode of the soap opera Neighbours was broadcast on the Seven Network, later becoming the longest-running drama in Australian television history.
1990: Historisk hendelse
Unidentified thieves stole thirteen works of art collectively valued at $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (pictured) in Boston, Massachusetts.
1996: Historisk hendelse
The deadliest fire in Philippine history broke out at a nightclub in Quezon City, causing 162 deaths.
2005: Historisk hendelse
As per a court order, the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, an American woman who suffered brain damage, was removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.
2015: Historisk hendelse
Gunmen attacked the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia, killing 24 people.
2019: Historisk hendelse
Syrian civil war: The U.S. Air Force carried out an airstrike in al-Baghuz Fawqani, killing as many as 80, a disputed number of whom were civilians.
🔍 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.