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Roman Empire

Battle of Adrianople

Thu Jul 3 324

Then in 324, Constantine, tempted by the "advanced age and unpopular vices" of his colleague, again declared war against him and having defeated his army of 165,000 men at the Battle of Adrianople (3 July 324), succeeded in shutting him up within the walls of Byzantium.

Crusades

Battle of Hattin

Fri Jul 3 1187

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The news of the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Hattin and the subsequent fall of Jerusalem gradually reached Western Europe.

Mamluks

Al-Said Barakah was the fifth of the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt

Sat Jul 3 1277

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Al-Said Barakah was a Mamluk Sultan who ruled from 1277 to 1279 after the death of his father Baibars. His mother was a daughter of Barka Khan, a former Khwarazmian amir.

George Washington

Headquarters and inspected the new army

Mon Jul 3 1775

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Upon arrival on July 2, 1775, two weeks after the Patriot defeat at nearby Bunker Hill, he set up his Cambridge, Massachusetts headquarters and inspected the new army there, only to find an undisciplined and badly outfitted militia.

George Washington

The British forces began arriving on Staten Island

Wed Jul 3 1776

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The British forces, including more than a hundred ships and thousands of troops, began arriving on Staten Island on July 2 to lay siege to the city.

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Napoleon

Battle of Wagram

Wed Jul 5 1809

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In the ensuing Battle of Wagram, which also lasted two days, Napoleon commanded his forces in what was the largest battle of his career up until then. Napoleon finished off the battle with a concentrated central thrust that punctured a hole in the Austrian army and forced Charles to retreat.

Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

Mon Jul 5 1852

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On July 5, 1852, Douglass delivered an address to the ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society. This speech eventually became known as "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"; one biographer called it "perhaps the greatest antislavery oration ever given".

Father's Day

The First observance of a day honoring fathers

Sun Jul 5 1908

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Father's Day was not celebrated in the US, outside Catholic traditions, until the 20th century. As a civic celebration in the US, it was inaugurated in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day by celebrating fathers and male parenting. After Anna Jarvis' successful promotion of Mother's Day in Grafton, West Virginia, the first observance of a day honoring fathers was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church.

Ho Chi Minh

The Steamer arrived In Marseille

Wed Jul 5 1911

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The steamer departed on 5 June 1911 and arrived in Marseille, France on 5 July 1911. The ship then left for Le Havre and Dunkirk, returning to Marseille in mid-September. There, he applied for the French Colonial Administrative School, but his application was rejected and he instead decided to begin traveling the world by working on ships and visited many countries from 1911 to 1917.

Albrecht Kossel

Kossel's Death

Tue Jul 5 1927

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Kossel died quietly on 5 July 1927, after a recurring attack of angina pectoris. He is buried in Heidelberg, Germany.

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Roman Empire

Great Fire of Rome

Fri Jul 18 64

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He believed himself a god and decided to build an opulent palace for himself. The so-called Domus Aurea, meaning golden house in Latin, was constructed atop the burnt remains of Rome after the Great Fire of Rome (64). Nero was ultimately responsible for the fire. By this time Nero was hugely unpopular despite his attempts to blame the Christians for most of his regime's problems.

Roman Empire

Vespasian

Mon Jul 1 69

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As a result of the Second Battle of Bedriacum, Vespasian became the fourth and last emperor who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years.

Roman Empire

Hadrian died

Thu Jul 10 138

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Hadrian died in the year 138 on 10 July, in his villa at Baiae at the age of 62.

Roman Empire

Antoninus Pius

Fri Jul 11 138

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Antoninus Pius's reign was comparatively peaceful; there were several military disturbances throughout the Empire in his time, in Mauretania, Judaea, and amongst the Brigantes in Britain, but none of them are considered serious.

Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)

Liang Ji poisoned Zhi

Tue Jul 26 146

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Liang Ji poisoned Zhi, killing him.

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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.

Korean War

Vietnam War

Berlin Wall

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

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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