A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History
We examine the significant events that occurred on this day in history. Get smarter about our history in less than 10 minutes per day! Presented by Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones.
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A Daily Dose of History (29 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor, the sixth emperor of the year.
Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byza...
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A Daily Dose of History (28 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines, is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.
In the Eighty Years' War, the Spanish capture...
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A Daily Dose of History (27 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
Georgian-Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Basian the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of Fr...
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A Daily Dose of History (26 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at the Battle of Valdejunquera.
Henry VII is recognized King of the Rom...
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A Daily Dose of History (25 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day assault on the city walls.
The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux.
Battle ...
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July 24, 2025 • 10 mins
A Daily Dose of History (24 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac ...
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July 23, 2025 • 7 mins
A Daily Dose of History (23 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
Scanian War: Denmark-Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
Kingdom of Prussi...
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July 22, 2025 • 9 mins
A Daily Dose of History (22 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England an...
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A Daily Dose of History (21 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
The 365 Crete earthquake affected the Greek island of Crete with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing a destructive tsunami that affects the coasts of Libya and Egypt, especially Alexandria. Many thousands were killed.
King Berengar I of It...
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A Daily Dose of History (20 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae.
Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy.
Treaty of S...
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July 19, 2025 • 10 mins
A Daily Dose of History (19 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Ro...
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July 18, 2025 • 10 mins
A Daily Dose of History (18 Jul 2025)
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Roman-Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.
Chinese forces under general Li Shiji b...
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July 17, 2025 • 8 mins
A Daily Dose of History (17 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.
The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
Z...
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July 16, 2025 • 7 mins
A Daily Dose of History (16 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an Papal bull (of doubtful validity) of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday ...
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A Daily Dose of History (15 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
First Jewish-Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
First Crusade...
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July 14, 2025 • 8 mins
A Daily Dose of History (14 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
King Otto II and his Frankish army were defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy.
Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II.
Battle of Vítkov Hill, decisive victory of Czech Hussite forces commanded by Jan Žižka against Crusade army led by Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor.
Anglo-Spanish War: English and...
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A Daily Dose of History (13 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamora...
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July 12, 2025 • 9 mins
A Daily Dose of History (12 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.
King Constantine II of Scotland, King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred of Bamburgh and King Owain of the Cumbrians accepted the overlordship of King Æthelstan of England, leading to seven years of p...
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A Daily Dose of History (11 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).
Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simp...
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A Daily Dose of History (10 Jul 2025)
Today's historical events:
Emperor Hadrian dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High K...
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