Mehmed II: The Ottoman Empire’s Conqueror (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)

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

• Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
• Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
• The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
• Maratha forces under Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Umberkhind.
• The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
• During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
• American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
• A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
• The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
• José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.

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