A Daily Dose of History (02 Apr 2024)

Today's historical events:

• Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Johns River.
• Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India.
• The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint.
• Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
• French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily-assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality.
• American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
• American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
• Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
• Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
• "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
• The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.

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