På denne dag: 18. desember
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1499: Historisk hendelse
Muslims in Granada began a rebellion against their Castilian rulers in response to forced conversions to Catholicism.
1622: Historisk hendelse
Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi.
1792: Historisk hendelse
Thomas Paine (depicted) was found guilty of seditious libel for the publication of the second part of his book Rights of Man.
1867: Historisk hendelse
In Angola, New York, the last coach of a Lake Shore Railway train derailed, plunged 40 feet (12 m) down a gully, and caught fire, resulting in approximately 49 deaths.
1913: Historisk hendelse
The Jew's Christmas, the first American film to include a rabbi as a character, was released.
1932: Historisk hendelse
Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game of the National Football League.
1939: Historisk hendelse
Second World War: The Luftwaffe won a victory over the Royal Air Force in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight, greatly influencing both sides' future aerial warfare strategy.
1958: Historisk hendelse
The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's first communications satellite.
1963: Historisk hendelse
Ghanaian and other African students organized a protest in Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of medical student Edmund Assare-Addo.
1966: Historisk hendelse
Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken for Janus; it took twelve years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
1969: Historisk hendelse
On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth James Bond film and the only one to star George Lazenby, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.
1979: Historisk hendelse
Mohammad Mofatteh, an Iranian philosopher, was assassinated by the Furqan Group.
1996: Historisk hendelse
The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect.
2017: Historisk hendelse
An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others.
2023: Historisk hendelse
A series of mass protests began in Belgrade, Serbia, alleging electoral irregularities in the Serbian parliament and Belgrade city assembly elections.
🔍 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.