On this day in history: 25th January: 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. 1139 - Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant 1327 - King Edward III accedes to the English throne 1348 - Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000 1494 - Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples 1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary 1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil. 1565 - Battle at Talikota India: the Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagars army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India 1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu. 1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic 1721 - Tsar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy 1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day. 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded. 1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1858 - Mendelssohns Wedding March 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victorias daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia 1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded. 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms 1890 - Nellie Bly beats Phileas Foggs time around world by 8 days (72 days) 1910 - Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem 1914 - An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorse the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF 1916 - Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary 1918 - Russia declared a republic of Soviets 1919 - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later 1923 - NVV donates 100,000 gulden to mine workers of Ruhrgebied 1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France 1939 - Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed 1940 - Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland 1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. 1945 - Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths 1945 - West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma 1949 - 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurions Mapai party wins 1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea 1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany 1955 - Columbia University scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:00:00 +0000