På denne dag: 24. desember
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
759: Historisk hendelse
The Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu departed for Chengdu, where he lived for the next five years and composed poems about life in his thatched cottage.
1814: Historisk hendelse
The United Kingdom and the United States signed a peace treaty in Ghent, present-day Belgium, ending the War of 1812.
1818: Historisk hendelse
The Christmas carol "Silent Night" (audio featured) by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber was first performed in a church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria.
1846: Historisk hendelse
The Sultanate of Brunei ceded the island of Labuan to the British Empire.
1865: Historisk hendelse
Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded a social club they named the Ku Klux Klan, which later became a white supremacist group.
1871: Historisk hendelse
Aida, one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, made its debut in Cairo, Egypt.
1913: Historisk hendelse
Seventy-three people were crushed to death in a stampede after someone falsely yelled "fire" at a crowded Christmas party in Calumet, Michigan, U.S.
1914: Historisk hendelse
World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted fighting to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce .
1918: Historisk hendelse
Forces united in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes defeated Hungarian forces to end the occupation of Međimurje.
1925: Historisk hendelse
Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story in the London Evening News.
1953: Historisk hendelse
A railway bridge at Tangiwai on New Zealand's North Island was damaged by a lahar and collapsed beneath a passenger train (wreckage pictured), killing 151 people.
1955: Historisk hendelse
According to legend, the NORAD Tracks Santa program began after children began calling the Continental Air Defense Command Center to inquire about Santa Claus's whereabouts due to a misprinted phone number in an advertisement.
1964: Historisk hendelse
The Viet Cong bombed the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, killing two U.S. Army officers and raising fears of an escalation of the Vietnam War.
1968: Historisk hendelse
Piloted by Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 became the first human spaceflight to reach and orbit the Moon (Earthrise pictured).
1973: Historisk hendelse
The U.S. Congress granted home rule to Washington, D.C., allowing the residents to elect their own mayor and a city council.
1979: Historisk hendelse
The Soviet government deployed troops in Afghanistan, starting the Soviet–Afghan War.
1999: Historisk hendelse
Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 to force the release of Islamist figures held in prison in India.
2008: Historisk hendelse
The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, began attacks on several villages in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing hundreds and committing numerous atrocities.
2021: Historisk hendelse
Burmese military forces killed at least 40 civilians during the Mo So massacre in Kayah State, Myanmar.
🔍 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.