Constantine’s Triumph: Battle of Adrianople 324 AD (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (03 Jul 2024) Today's historical events:

• Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
• Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
• Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
• French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
• Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
• American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
• The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
• The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
• Governor-General Peter von Scholten emancipates all remaining slaves in the Danish West Indies.

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