På denne dag: 17. juni
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
653: Historisk hendelse
Pope Martin I (pictured) was arrested in the Lateran Palace, Rome, and taken to Constantinople.
1397: Historisk hendelse
The kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Eric of Pomerania.
1462: Historisk hendelse
Hungarian–Ottoman Wars: Wallachian forces led by Vlad Dracula attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Sultan Mehmed II.
1579: Historisk hendelse
Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
1631: Historisk hendelse
Mumtaz Mahal (pictured), wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1775: Historisk hendelse
American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
1795: Historisk hendelse
French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.
1861: Historisk hendelse
American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the world's first military movements of troops by train.
1900: Historisk hendelse
Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts from Qing China after a brief but bloody battle.
1913: Historisk hendelse
In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.
1919: Historisk hendelse
Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.
1940: Historisk hendelse
Second World War: RMS Lancastria was sunk by German aircraft near Saint-Nazaire, France, causing thousands of fatalities in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
1952: Historisk hendelse
Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0.91 km2) in area to local peasants.
1963: Historisk hendelse
Riots broke out in Saigon one day after the signing of the Joint Communiqué, an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.
1972: Historisk hendelse
Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee, igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of US president Richard Nixon more than two years later.
2009: Historisk hendelse
Following a petition, the liberal progressive Czech Pirate Party was officially registered as a political party.
2015: Historisk hendelse
A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people during a prayer service.
2017: Historisk hendelse
Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 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.