A Daily Dose of History (15 Apr 2024)

Today's historical events:

• The Lateran Council condemns the Council of Hieria and anathematizes its iconoclastic rulings.
• Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Battle of the Terek River. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the throne.
• Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
• Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.
• The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
• Foundation of the Kingdom of Corsica.
• Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, receives its premiere performance in London, England.
• Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
• President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
• President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
• The General Electric Company is formed.
• Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

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