På denne dag: 5. april
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
919: Historisk hendelse
The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
1242: Historisk hendelse
Northern Crusades: In the Battle on the Ice, Novgorod forces led by Alexander Nevsky rebuffed an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus on the present-day border of Estonia and Russia.
1614: Historisk hendelse
Pocahontas (pictured), a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
1710: Historisk hendelse
The Statute of Anne, the first legislation in Great Britain providing for copyright regulated by the government and courts, received royal assent and entered into force five days later.
1847: Historisk hendelse
Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
1902: Historisk hendelse
A spectator stand collapsed during a football match at Ibrox Park in Govan, Scotland, killing 25 supporters and injuring more than 500 others.
1933: Historisk hendelse
Nazi sympathisers attempted to kidnap two German-Jewish filmmakers in Liechtenstein.
1936: Historisk hendelse
An F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people during one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1944: Historisk hendelse
Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
1955: Historisk hendelse
Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally in his old age, Winston Churchill retired as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
1966: Historisk hendelse
During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempted to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
1974: Historisk hendelse
Carrie (pictured), the first novel by American author Stephen King, was published.
1979: Historisk hendelse
Faculty members, clerical workers, and librarians at Boston University went on strike.
1983: Historisk hendelse
In China, the People's Armed Police, primarily responsible for internal security, was founded.
1986: Historisk hendelse
The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
1998: Historisk hendelse
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (pictured), then the world's longest suspension bridge, linking Awaji Island and Kobe in Japan, opened to traffic.
2000: Historisk hendelse
Fan violence broke out before a UEFA Cup semifinal in Istanbul, Turkey, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending the second leg in England.
2002: Historisk hendelse
In the first reported data breach, 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center.
2009: Historisk hendelse
The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.
2010: Historisk hendelse
An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the United States' worst mining disaster in 40 years.
2010: Historisk hendelse
Two bombings in Pakistan killed up to 50 people and injured around 100 others.
2018: Historisk hendelse
Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 Hispanic workers in one of the largest immigration raids in the history of the U.S.
🔍 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.