Rise & Fall: Sultan Musa Çelebi of Ottoman Empire (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (17 Feb 2025) Today's historical events:

• Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
• Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
• On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.
• Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.
• Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are lost at Evangelistas Islets at the western end of the Strait of Magellan.
• The Battle of Vasai commences as the Marathas move to invade Portuguese-occupied territory.
• In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
• 1800 United States presidential election: An tie in the Electoral College between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
• War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormant.

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