April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). There are 261 days remaining.
April 14 - Events.
43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
AD 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
1028 - Henry III, son of Conra ...
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining.
August 26 - Events.
55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain
1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
1346 - Hundred Years' War: The militar ...
April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining.
April 1 - Events.
527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English
1572 - The Watergeuzen succeeded in capturing Den Briel, effectively sealing off the Meuse from the Spaniards.
1789 - In New York City, the United States House of R ...
August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August.
August 31 - Events.
1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora dies suddenly without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty
1864 - American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his bro ...
August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining.
August 3 - Events.
8 - Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of the Christological "heresy" (at the time) known as Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail f ...
August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. It is also the 1st day of Thoth - which is the 1st day of the Egyptian Horoscope. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.
August 29 - Events.
708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1189- Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which become a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian stat ...
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining. It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. It is also known as the "Glorious Twelfth" in the UK, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season.
August 12 - Events.
490 BC - the Battle of Marathon, in which Athens defeated an invasion army of Persians, may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar - but see 12 Septe ...
August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining.
August 21 - Events.
1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1680 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
17 ...
April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining.
April 26 - Events.
1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh S ...
Assamese (অসমীয়া) or Asamiya or Oxomiya is the language spoken by some of the natives of the state of Assam in northeast India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Small pockets of Assamese speakers can be found in Bhutan and Bangladesh. Immigrants from Assam have carried the language with them to other parts of the world. The eastern most of Indo-European languages, it is spoken by over 20 million people.
As ...
August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining.
August 5 - Events.
642 - Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia
1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey
1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1583 - Sir Humphrey G ...
Astrakhan Cossack Host (Астраханское казачье войско in Russian) was a Cossack host of Imperial Russia drawn from the Cossacks of the Lower Volga region, who had been patrolling the banks of the Volga River from the time of Russia's annexation of Astrakhan Khanate in 1556.
In 1737, the Russian government relocated a number of the Volga Cossacks to Astrakhan and formed a Cossack unit of 3 sotnyas, or 300 men, for escorting couriers and correspondence and for guard duty, which would be re-organized ...
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (May 13, 1842 – November 22, 1900) was a British composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist William S. Gilbert.
Sullivan was born in Lambeth, now part of London. His father was a military bandmaster, and by the time Arthur had reached the age of 8, he was proficient with all the instruments in the band. Following a stay at private school in Bayswater, he was admitted to the choir of the Chapel Royal, attending its school in Cheyne Walk. While there, he began to compose anthems and songs. In 1856, he received the first Mendelssohn prize and beca ...
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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville.
Arthur Rimbaud - Life and work.
He was born into the rural middle class of Charleville (now part of Charleville-Mézières) in th ...
Art Nouveau (French for "new art") is a style in art, architecture and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning of the 20th century. Other, more localized terms for the cluster of self-consciously radical, somewhat mannered reformist chic that formed a prelude to 20th-century modernism, included "Jugendstil" in Germany and the Netherlands, named for the snappy avant-garde periodical Jugend ('Youth') or "Sezessionsstil" ('Secessionism') in Vienna, where forward-looking artists and designers seceded from the mainstream salon exhibitions, to ex ...
An Art sale is the practice of selling objects of art by auction. In England this dates from the latter part of the 17th century, when in most cases the names of the auctioneers were suppressed. Evelyn (under date June 21, 1693) mentions a "great auction of pictures (Lord Melford's) in the Banquetting House, Whitehall," and the practice is frequently referred to by other contemporary and later writers. Before the introduction of regular auctions the practice was, as in the case of the famous collection formed by Charles I., to ...
Athens or Athens-Clarke County is a city located in Clarke County, Georgia, U.S., in the northeastern part of the state, just off of Georgia 316. As of the 2000 census, the consolidated city-county (including all unincorporated areas in Clarke County except Winterville) had a total population of 100,266, although this does not include all of the college students with temporary residences. It is home to the University of Georgia, a major educational institution in the South and a football powerhouse in the Southeastern Conferenc ...
This page indexes the individual year in architecture pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
21st century in architecture:
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20th century in architecture:
1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s
19th century in architecture:
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898) was an influential English artist, illustrator, and author. He was born in Brighton, England.
Beardsley was aligned with the Yellow Book coterie of artists and writers, and produced many illustrations for the magazine. He was also closely aligned with Aestheticism, the British counterpart to Decadence and Symbolism.
Most of his images are done in ink, and feature large dark areas contrasted with large blank ones, and areas ...
August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining.
The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.
August 10 - Events.
612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
AD 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: O ...
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (AAR reporting mark ACL) was an American railroad that existed between 1898 and July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, its long-time rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. The company was headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida (Wilmington, North Carolina before 1961). After several more mergers and consolidations, the former ACL is now part of CSX Transportation, also headquartered in Jacksonville.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad - History. Including:
13 April is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). There are 262 days remaining. It is also the Ides of April.
April 13 - Events.
1055 - Victor II is consecrated pope
1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter
1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople
1598 - Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the HuguenotsIncluding:
