På denne dag: 11. mai
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
868: Historisk hendelse
A copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in Tang-dynasty China, making it the world's oldest dated printed book.
1745: Historisk hendelse
War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeated those of the Pragmatic Allies at the Battle of Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands in present-day Belgium.
1812: Historisk hendelse
Spencer Perceval was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, becoming the only British prime minister to be assassinated.
1813: Historisk hendelse
William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition to become the first confirmed Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains.
1820: Historisk hendelse
HMS Beagle (pictured), the ship that would take Charles Darwin on his voyage, was launched.
1858: Historisk hendelse
Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1880: Historisk hendelse
A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and settlers in Hanford, California, turned deadly when a gun battle broke out, leaving seven dead.
1889: Historisk hendelse
Bandits attacked a U.S. Army paymaster's escort in the Arizona Territory, stealing more than $28,000.
1894: Historisk hendelse
In response to a 28-percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
1910: Historisk hendelse
Glacier National Park was established in the U.S. state of Montana.
1928: Historisk hendelse
After a week-long standoff punctuated by military clashes, Japanese forces captured the city of Jinan, Shandong in China.
1963: Historisk hendelse
African Americans rioted in Birmingham, Alabama, in response to two bombings, perceiving local police to be complicit with the perpetrators.
1970: Historisk hendelse
Lubbock, Texas, was struck by a tornado that left 26 people dead.
1981: Historisk hendelse
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (performers pictured), opened at the New London Theatre.
1997: Historisk hendelse
Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champion.
1998: Historisk hendelse
India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
2010: Historisk hendelse
David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
2010: Historisk hendelse
Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party after failing to strike a coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats.
2011: Historisk hendelse
An earthquake registering Mw 5.1, the worst to hit the region for more than 50 years, struck near Lorca, Spain.
2013: Historisk hendelse
Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.
2022: Historisk hendelse
Myanmar civil war: Government troops killed 37 unarmed civilians in Mondaingbin.
2022: Historisk hendelse
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin refugee camp.
🔍 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.