April 12, 1205 — Constantinople sacked by warriors from the Fourth Crusade
The original intention of the Fourth Crusade was to reconquer Jerusalem, lost by the crusaders to Saladin’s forces in 1187....
April 5, 2022
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October 18, 1767 — Mason and Dixon complete the surveying of the Line between Maryland and Pennsylvania
Charles Mason, a fellow of the Royal Society and noted astronomer, and his sometime assistant, land surveyor and amateur astronomer,...
August 14, 2021
January 18, 1788 — The First Fleet lands in Botany Bay
An advance party for the First Fleet to colonise Australia entered Botany Bay on this day. The Governor of the...
June 29, 2021
November 15, 1793 — Mason and Dixon arrive in Philadelphia
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were a pair of English astronomers who were hired by Thomas Penn and Frederick Calvert,...
May 29, 2021
August 21, 1831 — Nat Turner’s Rebellion begins
Nat Tuner was a black slave in Virginia who believed he was divinely inspired to lead his people to freedom....
January 19, 2021
March 31, 1838 — Construction of the SS Great Western is completed
Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s design for the SS Great Western, which he designed (with some assistance from Thomas Guppy and other...
January 4, 2021
March 25, 1843 — The Thames Tunnel is opened to the public
The Thames Tunnel, connecting Rotherthithe and Wapping, was the first of its kind – the only tunnel up to that...
December 29, 2020
July 3, 1845 — The Walker Tariff act is passed by Congress
Largely a repeal of the Black Tariffs put in place in 1842, the Walker Tariff Act (named for Secretary of...
December 9, 2020
August 6, 1846 — The Independent Treasury Act is signed into law
James Knox Polk was the eleventh President of the USA. In 1846, he approved a law restoring the Independent Treasury...
November 29, 2020
December 8, 1864 — The Clifton Suspension Bridge is opened to the public
The Clifton Suspension Bridge was built more than a century after it had first been proposed, from a design by...
October 4, 2020
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