On This Day In History

January 25, 750

The Umayyads are decisively defeated by the Abbasids in the Battle of the Zab, leading to the end of their caliphate in the same year, replaced by the Abbasid Caliphate.

 
January 26, 1699

The Great Turkish War ends with the Treaty of Karlowitz, with the Ottoman Empire suffering a massive blow from its adversaries in the Holy League.

 
January 27, 1944

The Soviets' Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive lifts the 900-day siege of Leningrad.

January 28, 1077

Pope Gregory VII absolves Henry IV and lifts his excommunication after the Road to Canossa, about two years since the beginning of the Investiture Controversy.

 
January 29, 1906

King Christian IX of Denmark, one of only two European monarchs considered to be the "father-in-law of Europe," dies.

 
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February 1, 1814

More than a thousand people perish in Mayon's most destructive recorded eruption in the Philippines.

February 2, 1943

The Battle of Stalingrad ends in a Soviet victory.

 
February 16, 1934

The four-day Austrian Civil War ends in a victory for the clerical fascist Fatherland Front, which further paved the way for Austria's path to authoritarianism.

 
February 19, 1913

The shortest presidency in the history of the world begins and ends in the term of Pedro Lascuráin as President of Mexico.

 
February 20, 1846

The Kraków uprising begins, with Polish insurgents capturing Kraków, capital of the Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Kraków with its Territory.

February 21, 1440

FIfty-three nobles and clergy and nineteen cities proclaim the Prussian Confederation against the Teutonic Order. This was based on the Lizard Union, a similar organization formed in 1397.

 
February 22, 1797

The Battle of Fishguard begins with a Revolutionary French force landing in Wales. This was the last time that Great Britain was invaded by a hostile foreign power.

 
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