TODAY IN HISTORY

• 325 Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity

• 357 Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught

• 1212 Children’s crusade under Nicolas (10) reaches Genoa

• 1248 The Dutch city of

Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.

• 1330 Antipope Nicholas V, having obtained assurance of pardon, presents a confession of his sins to Pope John XXII, at Avignon, who absolved him

• 1425 Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail

• 1499 Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians

• 1515 Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds

Havana in modern day Cuba, on the southern coast of the island. Moved to its current location in 1519.

• 1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

• 1540 Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River

• 1566 Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht

• 1580 Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal

• 1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

• 1698 Tsar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through Western Europe

• 1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded

• 1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, on his first voyage on

board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean

• 1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812)

• 1825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)

• 1829 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses.