På denne dag: 17. august
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
986: Historisk hendelse
Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: The Bulgarians defeated Byzantine forces at the battle of the Gates of Trajan near present-day Ihtiman, with Emperor Basil II barely escaping.
1560: Historisk hendelse
The Scottish Reformation Parliament approved a Protestant confession of faith, initiating the Scottish Reformation and disestablishing Catholicism as the national religion.
1668: Historisk hendelse
An earthquake struck the North Anatolia region, killing over 8,000 people.
1676: Historisk hendelse
Scanian War: Swedish forces defeated Danish troops at the Battle of Halmstad.
1876: Historisk hendelse
The premiere of Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner (pictured) closed the first Bayreuth Festival.
1907: Historisk hendelse
Pike Place Market (pictured), one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a popular tourist attraction, opened in Seattle, Washington.
1914: Historisk hendelse
World War I: Ignoring orders to retreat, Hermann von François led a successful counterattack defending East Prussia at the Battle of Stallupönen and scored the first German victory in the Eastern Front.
1915: Historisk hendelse
A category 4 hurricane made landfall in Galveston, Texas, leaving at least 275 people dead.
1943: Historisk hendelse
World War II: The Royal Air Force began a strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany's V-weapon programme by attacking the Peenemünde Army Research Center.
1943: Historisk hendelse
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in a secret conference in Quebec.
1945: Historisk hendelse
Animal Farm, George Orwell's satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism, was first published.
1945: Historisk hendelse
The independence of Indonesia was proclaimed, igniting a revolution against the Dutch Empire.
1950: Historisk hendelse
Korean War: Forty-two American prisoners of war were massacred by the Korean People's Army on a hill above Waegwan, South Korea.
1959: Historisk hendelse
American musician Miles Davis released Kind of Blue, which became one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed jazz recordings of all time.
2008: Historisk hendelse
Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, setting the record for the most gold medals won by an athlete at a single games.
🔍 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.