A Daily Dose of History (27 Jul 2023)

Today's historical events:

• Georgian-Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Basian the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
• Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire.
• According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman state.
• The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
• The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. After the Acts of Union 1707, Scotland would be included in the Act.
• Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie is a victory for the Jacobites.
• A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.
• The Great Northern War: The first significant victory of the Russian Navy in the naval battle of Gangut against the Swedish Navy near the Hanko Peninsula.
• Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
• American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
• The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
• French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".

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