Moments in History
The events Wikipedia's editors chose for each day of the year — about 6,500 turning points, each at the day it happened.
Events 6531 totals
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Dec
24
759
📜 The Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu departed for Chengdu, where he lived for the next five years…
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Jan
21
763
📜 The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid revolt when a rebel leader was mortally wounded…
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Apr
15
769
📜 The final session of the Lateran Council, convened to rectify abuses in the papal…
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Jan
24
771
📜 Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat dedicated a 65-ton stele, the largest stone known to be quarried…
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Apr
25
775
📜 The Abbasid army won a decisive victory over the forces of rebelling Armenian princes at…
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May
20
794
📜 According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia was beheaded…
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Apr
25
799
📜 Pope Leo III was attacked by partisans of his predecessor Adrian I, but was rescued and…
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Jun
11
806
📜 Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an…
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Jul
11
813
📜 Byzantine emperor Michael I Rangabe (depicted), under threat by conspiracies, abdicated…
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Dec
14
835
📜 In the Sweet Dew incident, Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspired to kill the…
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Jul
22
838
📜 Arab–Byzantine wars: The forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated Byzantine troops led…
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Sep
25
844
📜 Viking expansion: A Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of…
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Mar
6
845
📜 The Abbasid Caliphate executed 42 Byzantine officials who had been captured in the sack…
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Mar
29
845
📜 Viking expansion: Viking raiders, possibly led by the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok,…
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Apr
10
847
📜 Pope Leo IV was consecrated without imperial consent following the Saracen sack of Rome.
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Mar
4
852
📜 Trpimir I, the founder of the Trpimirović dynasty of Croatia, issued a document that…
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May
22
853
📜 Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine navy began a raid on the Nile Delta port city of…
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Mar
15
856
📜 Byzantine emperor Michael III overthrew the regency of his mother Theodora (pictured) to…
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Dec
22
856
📜 An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 struck the eastern Alborz mountains in…
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Jun
18
860
📜 Rus' forces sailed into the Bosporus in a fleet of about 200 vessels and started…
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Dec
11
861
📜 The Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil was assassinated by his guards, beginning the Anarchy…
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Sep
3
863
📜 Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine Empire decisively defeated the Emirate of Melitene at…
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May
11
868
📜 A copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in Tang-dynasty China, making it the world's…
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Oct
5
869
📜 The Fourth Council of Constantinople, the eighth Catholic Ecumenical Council, was…
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Apr
8
876
📜 Abbasid forces decisively defeated the Saffarid emir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing the…
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