På denne dag: 17. juli
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1453: Historisk hendelse
The Battle of Castillon, the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all holdings in France except the Pale of Calais.
1771: Historisk hendelse
Dene men who were acting as guides to Samuel Hearne on his exploration of the Coppermine River in present-day Nunavut, Canada, massacred a group of about twenty Copper Inuit.
1850: Historisk hendelse
William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun.
1862: Historisk hendelse
The garrotting and robbery of James Pilkington, a British member of Parliament, led to a moral panic in London.
1863: Historisk hendelse
The New Zealand Wars resumed as British forces led by General Duncan Cameron began the invasion of the Waikato.
1918: Historisk hendelse
RMS Carpathia, which had rescued survivors of the 1912 Titanic sinking, was sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of five crew.
1918: Historisk hendelse
Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II and his family (pictured) were murdered by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg.
1936: Historisk hendelse
Nationalist military officers launch a coup d'état against the Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War
1944: Historisk hendelse
Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing 320 people and injuring more than 400 others.
1948: Historisk hendelse
In Olympia, Greece, the Summer Olympics torch relay, nicknamed the "relay of peace", began.
1968: Historisk hendelse
Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (pictured), the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif in a bloodless coup.
1992: Historisk hendelse
The Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom, was officially opened.
1994: Historisk hendelse
Brazil won the FIFA World Cup final against Italy 3–2 on penalties, following a 0–0 draw after extra time.
1996: Historisk hendelse
TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
2007: Historisk hendelse
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overran the runway at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 199 people.
2014: Historisk hendelse
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
🔍 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.