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Second Battle of Kosovo
Kosovo
Oct 17 1448
Tue 17:31:00
Four years later, John Hunyadi prepared another army of Hungarian and Wallachian forces to attack the Turks but was again defeated at the Second Battle of Kosovo in 1448.
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Napoleon
Battle of Ulm
Wed Oct 16 1805
Austrian commander Karl Mack had gathered the greater part of the Austrian army at the fortress of Ulm in Swabia. Napoleon swung his forces to the southeast and the Grande Armée performed an elaborate wheeling movement that outflanked the Austrian positions. The Ulm Maneuver completely surprised General Mack, who belatedly understood that his army had been cut off. After some minor engagements that culminated in the Battle of Ulm, Mack finally surrendered after realizing that there was no way to break out of the French encirclement. For just 2,000 French casualties, Napoleon had managed to capture a total of 60,000 Austrian soldiers through his army's rapid marching.
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The palace of Westminster England
A Fire
Thu Oct 16 1834
On 16 October 1834, a fire broke out in the Palace after an overheated stove used to destroy the Exchequer's stockpile of tally sticks set fire to the House of Lords Chamber. In the resulting conflagration both Houses of Parliament were destroyed, along with most of the other buildings in the palace complex. Westminster Hall was saved thanks to fire-fighting efforts and a change in the direction of the wind. The Jewel Tower, the Undercroft Chapel and the Cloisters and Chapter House of St Stephen's were the only other parts of the Palace to survive.
Westminster Palace
The palace of Westminster England
Victoria Tower
Thu Oct 16 1834
The largest and tallest tower is 98.5-metre (323 ft) Victoria Tower, which occupies the south-western corner of the Palace. Originally named "The King's Tower" because the fire of 1834 which destroyed the old Palace of Westminster occurred during the reign of King William IV, the tower was an integral part of Barry's original design, of which he intended it to be the most memorable element. The architect conceived the great square tower as the keep of a legislative "castle" (echoing his selection of the portcullis as his identifying mark in the planning competition), and used it as the royal entrance to the Palace and as a fireproof repository for the archives of Parliament. Victoria Tower was re-designed several times, and its height increased progressively; upon its completion in 1858, it was the tallest secular building in the world.
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Buckingham Palace
Destruction of the Palace of Westminster by fire
Thu Oct 16 1834
After the destruction of the Palace of Westminster by fire in 1834, William considered converting the palace into the new Houses of Parliament.
Buckingham Palace
Unification of Germany
Crimean War
Sun Oct 16 1853
The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Guild of Saint Luke
Sun Oct 18 1503
Leonardo had left Borgia's service and returned to Florence by early 1503, where he rejoined the Guild of Saint Luke on 18 October of that year.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ho Chi Minh
Marriage
Mon Oct 18 1926
He lived with a Chinese woman, Zeng Xueming (Tăng Tuyết Minh), whom he married on 18 October 1926.
Ho Chi Minh
The Holocaust
Odessa massacre
Sun Oct 18 1942
The Romanian military killed up to 25,000 Jews during the Odessa massacre between 18 October 1941 and March 1942, assisted by gendarmes and the police.
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Martin Bormann
The Volkssturm
Wed Oct 18 1944
Bormann and Himmler shared responsibility for the Volkssturm (people's militia), which drafted all remaining able-bodied men aged 16 to 60 into a last-ditch militia founded on 18 October 1944. Poorly equipped and trained, the men were sent to fight on the eastern front, where nearly 175,000 of them were killed without having any discernible impact on the Soviet advance.
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Korean War
China entered the war
Wed Oct 18 1950
Immediately on his return to Beijing on 18 October 1950, Zhou met with Mao Zedong, Peng Dehuai and Gao Gang, and the group ordered two hundred thousand PVA troops to enter North Korea, which they did on 19 October.
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Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)
Lülin rebels stormed the Weiyang Palace and killed Wang
Fri Oct 6 23
Lülin rebels stormed the Weiyang Palace and killed Wang. The Gengshi Emperor ascended the throne, restoring the Han dynasty.
A mural showing women dressed in traditional Hanfu silk robes, from the Dahuting Tomb of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD)
Roman Empire
Claudius died
Tue Oct 13 54
Claudius was deified later that year. The death of Claudius paved the way for Agrippina's own son, the 17-year-old Lucius Domitius Nero.
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Roman Empire
Mad Nero
Tue Oct 13 54
Nero ruled from 54 to 68. During his rule, Nero focused much of his attention on diplomacy, trade, and increasing the cultural capital of the empire.
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Roman Empire
Valerian's first act as emperor
Sat Oct 22 253
Valerian's first act as emperor on October 22, 253, was to appoint his son Gallienus caesar. Early in his reign, affairs in Europe went from bad to worse, and the whole West fell into disorder. In the East, Antioch had fallen into the hands of a Sassanid vassal and Armenia was occupied by Shapur I (Sapor).
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Byzantine Empire
Battle of Mons Lactarius
Sun Oct 22 552
Totila's successor, Teia, was defeated at the Battle of Mons Lactarius (October 552).
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Cold war
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II.
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Berlin Wall
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
U.S. Presidents
In this collection, we list U.S. Presidents Stories. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a 4-year term by the people through the Electoral College.
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
Donald Trump
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Great Women in History
The female characters affected history.
Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Blackwell
Marie Curie
Anna May Wong
Mother Teresa
Rosa Parks
Indira Gandhi
Margaret Thatcher
Angela Merkel
Halimah Yacob
Ruby Bridges
Theresa May
Princess Diana
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