På denne dag: 6. april
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1652: Historisk hendelse
Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck landed at Table Bay in southern Africa, establishing a settlement that later became known as Cape Town.
1712: Historisk hendelse
A group of 23 slaves in New York City revolted, setting fire to a building, but were soon recaptured.
1776: Historisk hendelse
American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy unsuccessfully attempted to capture HMS Glasgow near Block Island.
1808: Historisk hendelse
John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
1809: Historisk hendelse
Napoleonic Wars: British forces captured the French frigate Niémen in the Bay of Biscay.
1812: Historisk hendelse
Peninsular War: After a three-week siege, the Anglo-Portuguese Army, under the Earl of Wellington, captured Badajoz, Spain, and forced the surrender of the French garrison.
1830: Historisk hendelse
Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and others formally organized the Church of Christ, starting the Latter Day Saint movement.
1926: Historisk hendelse
Varney Air Lines made its first commercial flight (flight covers pictured), later forming the basis of United Airlines.
1941: Historisk hendelse
World War II: The Luftwaffe began Operation Retribution, bombing the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade in retaliation for a coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite Pact.
1941: Historisk hendelse
World War II: German forces invaded Greece and Yugoslavia.
1945: Historisk hendelse
Second World War: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville Island concluded with a decisive victory for the Australian Army's 7th Brigade against the Imperial Japanese Army's 6th Division.
1970: Historisk hendelse
Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed in a shootout following a traffic stop in Newhall, north of Los Angeles.
1974: Historisk hendelse
ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with the song "Waterloo".
1994: Historisk hendelse
The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.
2004: Historisk hendelse
Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas became the first European head of state to be removed from office by impeachment.
2005: Historisk hendelse
Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was elected by the National Assembly as the first non-Arab president of Iraq.
2009: Historisk hendelse
An earthquake measuring 6.3 Mw struck near L'Aquila in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, killing 308 people and leaving more than 66,000 homeless.
2009: Historisk hendelse
Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the parliamentary election.
2010: Historisk hendelse
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: Insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Dantewada district, India, killing 76 officers.
2011: Historisk hendelse
Mexican drug war: Authorities discovered 59 bodies in clandestine mass graves linked to earlier bus hijackings in San Fernando, Tamaulipas.
2012: Historisk hendelse
The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declared the region of Azawad independent from Mali.
2018: Historisk hendelse
A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos collided with a semi-truck, killing 16 and injuring 13.
2026: Historisk hendelse
During the Artemis II mission, the Orion made its closest approach to the far side of the Moon and reached its greatest distance from Earth .
🔍 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.