Founding of Baghdad: Islamic Hub of Learning (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (30 Jul 2024) Today's historical events:

• Baghdad is founded.
• First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
• Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
• Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
• In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
• An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
• Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
• The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.
• Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
• Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
• The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
• In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
• Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
• First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.

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