A Daily Dose of History (26 Nov 2024)

Today's historical events:

• The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her king from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
• Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin-Song Wars.
• Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
• In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
• A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
• Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
• The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia.
• An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 60 in the Dutch East Indies.
• Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
• HMS Bulwark is destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
• The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

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