Rhine River: The Year of Four Emperors (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones
January 3, 20248m 41s
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Show Notes
A Daily Dose of History (03 Jan 2024)
Today's historical events:
- The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
- Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
- Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
- The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
- American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- Captain James Onslow, in the Clio, reasserts British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
- American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
- Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
- Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop.
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