A Daily Dose of History (12 Oct 2024)

Today's historical events:

• Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
• The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
• In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
• Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before.
• Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. (Julian calendar)
• The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
• The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
• The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
• Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
• The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
• Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.

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