På denne dag: 18. juli
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1290: Historisk hendelse
King Edward I issued an edict to expel all Jews from England.
1723: Historisk hendelse
Johann Sebastian Bach directed the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz in Leipzig.
1806: Historisk hendelse
An explosion at a gunpowder magazine in Birgu, Malta, killed an estimated 200 people.
1841: Historisk hendelse
Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, was crowned at the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.
1863: Historisk hendelse
American Civil War: Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first African-American military units in the Union Army, spearheaded an assault (pictured) on Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
1899: Historisk hendelse
Newsboys from Long Island City turned over a distribution wagon for the New York Journal, marking the start of the Newsboys' strike of 1899.
1936: Historisk hendelse
Nationalist rebels attempted a coup against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
1949: Historisk hendelse
Francisco Javier Arana, the chief of the Guatemalan armed forces, was killed in a shootout with supporters of President Juan José Arévalo.
1966: Historisk hendelse
Angered by racism and poverty, African American residents of the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland began to riot for six days.
1976: Historisk hendelse
At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 for her routine on the uneven bars.
1984: Historisk hendelse
Parts of the dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa were found in Stockholm.
1984: Historisk hendelse
A gunman massacred 21 people and injured 15 others at a McDonald's restaurant in the district of San Ysidro of San Diego, California.
1989: Historisk hendelse
American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California.
1995: Historisk hendelse
Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was posthumously released.
2012: Historisk hendelse
A suicide bomber attacked an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria, resulting in the military branch of Hezbollah being designated a terrorist organization by the European Union.
2014: Historisk hendelse
The conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been found guilty of paying for an underage prostitute, was overturned on appeal.
2019: Historisk hendelse
An arson attack at the studio of Kyoto Animation in Japan led to the deaths of 36 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.