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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 22nd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On October 22, 1707, four ships of the Royal Navy ran aground and sank near the Isles of Scilly near Cornwall in Great Britain. On October 22, 1721, Peter I, better known as Peter the Great, Czar of All Russia for nearly four decades at this point, announced the existence of the Russian Empire, the first time Russia had been so declared. On…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 21st.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On October 21, 1096, a Seljuk Turk army led by Sultan Kilij Arslan I massacred a Christian army from Europe, known as the People’s Army, ending the first of the religious wars known as the Crusades. On October 21, 1944, Japan began their notorious kamikaze attacks during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, first striking HMAS Australia. On October 21, 1944, the Soviet…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 20th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On October 20, 1803, Ludwig van Beethoven, one of history’s greatest composers (and a favorite here at History and Headlines!) was hard at work on his vastly important “Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major,” better known as “Sinfonia Eroica” (“Heroic Symphony”). On October 20, 1827, and international coalition of British, French and Russian ships fought against a fleet of Turkish Ottoman…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 19th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper October 19 marks the feast of Saint Frithuswith, also spelled Frideswide, who passed away on that date in 727 A.D., and for whom a king had died as he tried to force her into marriage! On October 19, 1864, military forces of the Confederate States of America invaded Vermont from a staging area in Quebec, Canada. On October 19, 1943, a French cargo ship…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 18th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On October 18, 1356, Basel, Switzerland was destroyed by what may have been the most significant historic earthquake ever to occur north of the Alps. On October 18, 1851, the Herman Melville classic, Moby Dick, was first published under its original or alternate title, The Whale. On October 18, 1945, the Soviet nuclear program received American atomic bomb (plutonium implosion type) plans…