På denne dag: 24. mai
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1567: Historisk hendelse
The mentally ill King Erik XIV of Sweden (pictured) and his guards murdered five incarcerated nobles, including some members of the influential Sture family.
1667: Historisk hendelse
Led by King Louis XIV, the French army invaded the Spanish Netherlands, beginning the War of Devolution.
1683: Historisk hendelse
Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened.
1689: Historisk hendelse
The Act of Toleration became law, granting freedom of worship to English nonconformists under certain circumstances, but deliberately excluding Catholics.
1738: Historisk hendelse
At a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London, John Wesley (pictured) experienced a spiritual rebirth, leading him to launch the Methodist movement.
1798: Historisk hendelse
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 began, with battles beginning in County Kildare and fighting later spreading across the country.
1830: Historisk hendelse
The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
1883: Historisk hendelse
New York City's Brooklyn Bridge opened as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
1913: Historisk hendelse
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover; the occasion was one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began.
1930: Historisk hendelse
English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
1941: Historisk hendelse
Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
1948: Historisk hendelse
Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian forces captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the defenders had abandoned it.
1956: Historisk hendelse
The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
1962: Historisk hendelse
Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1963: Historisk hendelse
United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with African American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt to improve race relations.
1970: Historisk hendelse
On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft), making it the deepest borehole ever drilled and the lowest artificial point on Earth.
1976: Historisk hendelse
In a wine competition in Paris (wine bottle pictured), French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wines higher than French ones.
1986: Historisk hendelse
A stationary front began over the central Caribbean Sea, leading to severe floods that over two weeks killed dozens of people in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
1988: Historisk hendelse
Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act of 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted.
1991: Historisk hendelse
The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (evacuees pictured).
2006: Historisk hendelse
An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.
2014: Historisk hendelse
A gunman involved in Islamic extremism opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people.
2022: Historisk hendelse
An 18-year old gunman shot and killed nineteen students and two teachers in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
2026: Historisk hendelse
A suicide bombing targeting a shuttle train in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, kills at least 47 people.
🔍 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.