På denne dag: 7. mai
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
351: Historisk hendelse
Jews in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina rebelled against the rule of Constantius Gallus (pictured), caesar of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1487: Historisk hendelse
Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
1544: Historisk hendelse
During the Rough Wooing, an English army carried out the Burning of Edinburgh.
1697: Historisk hendelse
The 13th-century castle of Tre Kronor in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace were presented within the year.
1794: Historisk hendelse
French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
1798: Historisk hendelse
War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast, inflicting heavy losses.
1930: Historisk hendelse
An earthquake struck northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, killing up to 3,000 people.
1937: Historisk hendelse
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.
1940: Historisk hendelse
A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).
1946: Historisk hendelse
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.
1954: Historisk hendelse
A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
1991: Historisk hendelse
A fire and explosion at a fireworks factory in Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killed 26 people.
1999: Historisk hendelse
Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
2009: Historisk hendelse
Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
2010: Historisk hendelse
A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that most living humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
2023: Historisk hendelse
A tourist boat capsized, killing at least 22 people in Tanur, India.
🔍 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.