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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Nov
8
960
📜 Arab–Byzantine wars: Having been the target of many raids by the Emirate of Aleppo,…
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Dec
6
963
📜 Leo VIII was ordained a bishop, claiming the Holy See as an antipope supported by Otto…
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Apr
14
966
📜 Mieszko I, the ruler of Poland, converted to Christianity, an event considered to be the…
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Jan
10
976
📜 After the death of his guardian John I Tzimiskes, Basil II became the effective ruler…
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Aug
17
986
📜 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: The Bulgarians defeated Byzantine forces at the battle of the…
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Apr
21
995
📜 Ælfric of Abingdon was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Jul
19
998
📜 Arab–Byzantine wars: After initial Byzantine gains at the Battle of Apamea, a lone…
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Dec
30
999
📜 In Ireland, the combined forces of Munster and Meath crushed a rebellion by Leinster and…
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Nov
13
1002
📜 King Æthelred II (pictured) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
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Apr
30
1006
📜 SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the…
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Mar
9
1009
📜 The first recorded use of the name of Lithuania appeared in Latin in the Annals of…
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Jul
31
1009
📜 Sergius IV became the 142nd pope, succeeding John XVIII.
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Sep
29
1011
📜 An army of Viking pirates that had besieged the English city of Canterbury for weeks…
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Apr
23
1014
📜 The Vikings were defeated by the Irish at the Battle of Clontarf.
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Jul
29
1014
📜 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Byzantine forces defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at…
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Apr
23
1016
📜 Edmund Ironside became King of England, reigning for only seven months before the…
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Jan
30
1018
📜 Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bolesław I, the Piast ruler of Poland, signed the…
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Aug
15
1018
📜 Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles captured and blinded Ibatzes of Bulgaria by…
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Dec
15
1025
📜 Constantine VIII (depicted) became the sole Byzantine emperor, 63 years after being…
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Feb
2
1033
📜 An assembly at the Abbey of Payerne crowned Conrad II (pictured) king of Burgundy.
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Nov
25
1034
📜 After Malcolm II of Scotland died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter,…
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Aug
15
1038
📜 Upon the death of his uncle Stephen I, Peter (depicted) became the second king of Hungary.
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Apr
3
1043
📜 Edward the Confessor, usually considered to be the last king of the House of Wessex, was…
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Dec
25
1046
📜 Henry III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement II.
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Feb
3
1047
📜 Emperor Henry III declared Drogo of Hauteville to be count of all Apulian and Calabrian…
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