På denne dag: 23. desember
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
583: Historisk hendelse
Yohl Ikʼnal (signature pictured) acceded to the throne of the Maya city-state of Palenque.
1776: Historisk hendelse
American Revolutionary War: American troops, overwhelmed by British reinforcements, retreated from the Battle of Iron Works Hill.
1783: Historisk hendelse
George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis (painting shown).
1815: Historisk hendelse
Jane Austen's novel Emma was first published, the last novel released during her lifetime.
1888: Historisk hendelse
During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (pictured) severed part of his left ear and gave it to a woman in a brothel in Arles, France.
1916: Historisk hendelse
First World War: Allied forces gained a strategic victory at the Battle of Magdhaba on the Sinai Peninsula.
1919: Historisk hendelse
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was enacted, lifting most of the existing common-law restrictions on women in the United Kingdom.
1957: Historisk hendelse
Leading the Australia national cricket team, Ian Craig became the youngest-ever Test cricket captain at the time.
1958: Historisk hendelse
Tokyo Tower, then the world's tallest freestanding tower, opened.
1984: Historisk hendelse
An engine fire caused Aeroflot Flight 3519 to crash shortly after takeoff from Krasnoyarsk, USSR, killing all but one of the 111 people on board.
1990: Historisk hendelse
About 88 percent of eligible voters in Slovenia voted to secede from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1997: Historisk hendelse
The Pioneer Helmet, one of only six Anglo-Saxon helmets to be discovered, was first placed on public display.
2008: Historisk hendelse
The Guinean military engineered a coup d'état, announcing that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election.
🔍 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.