A Daily Dose of History (01 Feb 2024)

Today's historical events:

• The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
• The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
• The Kalabalik or Skirmish at Bender results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
• French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
• Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
• Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
• The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
• Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
• La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

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