På denne dag: 8. juli
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1663: Historisk hendelse
Baptist minister John Clarke (pictured) was granted the Rhode Island Royal Charter, described as the "grandest instrument of human liberty ever constructed".
1709: Historisk hendelse
Great Northern War: Swedish forces under Charles XII were defeated by Russian troops led by Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava.
1758: Historisk hendelse
French and Indian War: French forces defeated the British at Fort Carillon in the British colony of New York.
1776: Historisk hendelse
The United States Declaration of Independence received its first formal public reading, in Philadelphia.
1874: Historisk hendelse
Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West, their first journey to the Canadian Prairies.
1927: Historisk hendelse
The Spanish anarchist group Los Errantes are released from French detention, following a lengthy defense campaign against their extradition.
1947: Historisk hendelse
Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.
1950: Historisk hendelse
Korean War: American troops withdrew from Cheonan, in modern-day South Korea, after suffering heavy casualties from a North Korean attack.
1962: Historisk hendelse
Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic students' union building.
1965: Historisk hendelse
Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 was destroyed by a bomb near 100 Mile House, Canada, killing 52.
1966: Historisk hendelse
King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi was deposed in a coup d'état by his son, Prince Charles Ndizi.
1980: Historisk hendelse
Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashed near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan) killing all 166 people on board.
1990: Historisk hendelse
West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the game's only goal.
2003: Historisk hendelse
Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashed near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.
2014: Historisk hendelse
German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known movements were widely watched on YouTube.
2014: Historisk hendelse
In the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final at the Mineirão, Germany defeated Brazil 7–1 (players pictured), breaking several tournament records.
2021: Historisk hendelse
Head of a Bear (pictured) sold at auction in London for a total of £8.8 million, a record for a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
2022: Historisk hendelse
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe (pictured) was assassinated with an improvised firearm.
🔍 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.