Todays History

In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming…

A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.

Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.

King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.

Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.

“Bloody Thursday”: the police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.

In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.

Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.