På denne dag: 29. mars
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
845: Historisk hendelse
Viking expansion: Viking raiders, possibly led by the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, plundered and occupied Paris, holding the city for a large ransom.
1430: Historisk hendelse
After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
1461: Historisk hendelse
Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrian army at the Battle of Towton, allowing Edward IV to secure the English throne.
1800: Historisk hendelse
William Matthews was ordained as the first Catholic priest born in British America.
1807: Historisk hendelse
German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Vesta, the brightest asteroid and second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.
1823: Historisk hendelse
Joaquín de Oreamuno led a coup d'état that overthrew Rafael Francisco Osejo, attempting to restore allegiance to the Mexican Empire.
1831: Historisk hendelse
Authorities held an inquest at New Town, Tasmania, into the deaths of a woman and two children who were fatally poisoned after eating smooth toadfish.
1865: Historisk hendelse
American Civil War: The Appomattox campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.
1882: Historisk hendelse
The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
1941: Historisk hendelse
The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement to define technical standards for AM band radio stations came into effect.
1941: Historisk hendelse
Second World War: British and Australian ships defeated Italian Regia Marina vessels at the Battle of Cape Matapan.
1951: Historisk hendelse
The King and I, a musical about Mongkut of Siam by Rodgers and Hammerstein, premiered on Broadway.
1968: Historisk hendelse
The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, began in Moscow with tens of thousands of people in attendance.
1974: Historisk hendelse
NASA's Mariner 10 became the first space probe to make a flyby of Mercury.
1974: Historisk hendelse
A group of farmers in the Chinese province of Shaanxi discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues (pictured) depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China.
1975: Historisk hendelse
Jeff Beck released Blow by Blow, his most successful album in the U.S., reaching the top five and selling over one million copies.
1981: Historisk hendelse
Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the Men's Elite Race and Joyce Smith won the Women's Elite Race in the inaugural London Marathon.
1982: Historisk hendelse
Queen Elizabeth II granted royal assent to the Canada Act 1982, which ended any remaining constitutional dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by a process known as patriation.
1999: Historisk hendelse
The Chamoli earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years, killed at least 100 people.
2010: Historisk hendelse
Islamist separatists of the Caucasus Emirate detonated two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 people and injuring 102 others.
2014: Historisk hendelse
The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place following the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.
2017: Historisk hendelse
British prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
🔍 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.