HISTORY
History on this day
History keeps a calendar. These are moments from the places our guides cover, listed by the day of the year they happened. Find the month you are traveling, then follow the link to that city’s guide.
January
El Chorro cultural center founded
The San Miguel de Allende guideLachlan Macquarie takes office as governor of New South Wales on January 1, 1810, following the overthrow of William…
The Sydney guideFrancisco de Montejo y León, the Younger, founded Mérida on January 6, 1542.
The Merida guideSources give different incorporation dates: January 14 in OHS Early Portland; February 8 in OPB.
The Portland guideFløibanen opens on January 15
The Bergen guideMontejo 495 opened as a house museum January 15.
The Merida guideChinese Garden of Friendship opens on 17 January.
The Sydney guideNMAAM held its ribbon cutting on January 18 and public opening on January 30.
The Nashville guideJohn W. Simonton purchases Key West from Juan P. Salas in December 1821 and takes possession on January 19, 1822.
The Key West guide
February
Town Hall Theatre reopens on February 1
The Galway guideCity constitution published on February 5
The Mexico City guideThe Moreton Bay penal establishment was formally abolished on February 10.
The Brisbane & Gold Coast guideThe city announced a February 10 dedication of Taylor Square following the previous year's renaming.
The Savannah guideAbout 2,000 Jews are massacred in Strasbourg on February 14.
The Strasbourg guideUniversidad Nacional del Sureste founded February 22.
The Merida guideAn enlargement of Antigua’s sanctuary is ordered on February 24.
The Fuerteventura guideThe independence manifesto was circulated in Tallinn on February 24.
The Tallinn guide
March
A tornado outbreak crossed Middle Tennessee on March 2–3.
The Nashville guideThe Santa Rosa battle takes place on March 20.
The Costa Rica guideQueen Elizabeth II opens Council House on 25 March; T-shaped sunshades cover its four walls.
The Perth guideArmenian Church built in 1835 and consecrated on 26 March 1836.
The Singapore guideAntonios Economou proclaims the Revolution on Hydra on March 27; Hydra formally joins on April 16, 1821.
The Hydra guideMargarita Maza is born in Oaxaca: Culture Ministry gives March 28 and baptism March 29; SICT gives March 29 as birth.
The Oaxaca guideAnne Lister and Ann Walker share communion on March 30 to mark their commitment.
The York guide
April
Unterlinden opens as a museum on April 3.
The Colmar guideAnna Rice Cooke's art museum opens on April 8.
The Honolulu guideThe Frist opened on April 8.
The Nashville guidePájara’s newer nave is completed in 1733 and blessed on April 14, 1734.
The Fuerteventura guideThe first series-produced Volvo leaves the factory on April 14.
The Gothenburg guideBute Park opened as a public park on April 15.
The Cardiff guideSusan Page convenes the Literary Sala
The San Miguel de Allende guideThe April 29 air raid kills 92 people in the museum-backed account.
The York guideMuseu Puget opened on April 30.
The Ibiza guide
May
May 1–2 rainfall caused devastating flooding.
The Nashville guideThe May 3 Constitution is adopted in the castle.
The Warsaw guideHarpa holds its first concert, formal opening, and inauguration on different dates.
The Reykjavik guideTallinn received Lübeck law on May 15.
The Tallinn guideSwiss troops land at Port-Noir before formal union on May 19, 1815.
The Geneva guideAllied bombing on May 26 damages the school.
The Lyon guideAurélia de Souza died in Porto on May 26, 1922.
The Porto guideGerman aircraft bomb North Strand on May 30–31, 1941, killing 28 people.
The Dublin guide
June
Barbara and Marie Hütterott disappeared; Istrapedia records confiscation by June 1.
The Rovinj guideVerdensteatret opened on June 4.
The Tromsø guideRacial violence struck Cardiff from June 11–14.
The Cardiff guideThe municipality adopted its culture-environment plan on June 19.
The Stavanger guideFort St Elmo falls on June 23 during the Great Siege.
The Malta guideInteractive Palacio de la Música museum opened June 25.
The Merida guideElliðaár power station is inaugurated on June 27.
The Reykjavik guideWalden Hospital closes.
The Chattanooga guide
July
The Upper Hot Springs bathhouse opens on July 1.
The Banff guideThe occupation museum opened to visitors on July 1.
The Tallinn guideYork is besieged, and the Royalists lose at Marston Moor on July 2.
The York guideCafé Iruña opens on July 7.
The Bilbao guideState landmark dates Sloat’s flag raising and takeover to July 7, 1846; NPS Larkin House narrative instead calls the…
The Monterey guideWolsey suppresses St Frideswide’s Priory and establishes Cardinal College.
The Oxford guideBear Street reconstruction is completed on July 19.
The Banff guideAccounts differ on Mission Dolores’s founding date: the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone gives July 29, 1776; Mission…
The San Francisco guide
August
Ana Lipša Tofović's August 4 concert initiated Ohrid Summer.
The Ohrid guideRepublican forces besiege Lyon from August 8 to October 9, 1793.
The Lyon guideOttoman assault remembered in civic and devotional histories.
The Kotor guideCathedral dedicated on August 15
The Galway guideFisk University was incorporated on August 22.
The Nashville guideArchaeological Museum is established on August 22.
The Split guideTallinn’s first horse-drawn tram line opened on August 24, 1888.
The Tallinn guideThe new La Peña sanctuary is blessed on August 26.
The Fuerteventura guideLocal liberation on August 28 precedes American entry on August 30 in the departmental chronology.
The Nice guide
September
Fire destroys much of the old City.
The London guideCU Boulder founded in 1876 and opened to students September 5, 1877.
The Denver & Boulder guideThe US Army’s Heidelberg presence ends on September 6.
The Heidelberg guideSchermerhorn Symphony Center opened on September 9.
The Nashville guideAloha Tower opens on September 11.
The Honolulu guideSeptember 11 attacks
The New York guideThe Redcliffe penal settlement began; NMA dates the Amity arrival September 12, while SLQ's presentation dates…
The Brisbane & Gold Coast guideEl Matorral airport opens on September 14.
The Fuerteventura guidePublic garden opens on September 16
The Zadar guideConquest pact followed by the endowment of Santa Maria parish.
The Ibiza guideRita Rosani is killed on Monte Comun on September 17.
The Verona guideEve Shepherd’s Betty Campbell monument was unveiled on September 29.
The Cardiff guideThe present synagogue is inaugurated on September 29.
The Verona guide
October
The inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival takes place October 3–5.
The Monterey guideNaples–Portici railway opens on October 3.
The Naples guideThe Artxanda funicular makes its first journey on October 7.
The Bilbao guideWest Bute Dock opened on October 8.
The Cardiff guideGhent University was founded, then inaugurated on October 9, 1817.
The Ghent guideThe university is approved in 1960 and opens to students in 1963.
The York guideParish construction began in 1903; October 12, 1921 is its official commemorated beginning.
The Puerto Vallarta guideThe Teatro Biondo opened on October 15.
The Palermo guideCentro Cultural Fernando Castro Pacheco founded October 18.
The Merida guideThe theater's historical research states October 19; the Sicultura entry gives October 21.
The Costa Rica guideThe synagogue is destroyed in 1938; Jews are deported to Gurs on October 22, 1940.
The Heidelberg guideRedentore garden opens to the public
The Venice guideThe rebuilt Atatürk Cultural Centre reopened on October 29.
The Istanbul guide
November
Museo de la Luz founded November 2.
The Merida guideTroops fire during the November 9 antifascist demonstration, killing thirteen.
The Geneva guideA renovated Fine Arts Museum reopens on November 10.
The Bilbao guideCity Council approved a $5.91 million Section 14 settlement on November 14.
The Palm Springs guideWomen gain state voting rights in 1908; the library dates passage to November 18 and Parliament to November 24.
The Melbourne guideIndependence proclaimed on November 18.
The Riga guideMinnie James opened the Temple of Peace on November 23.
The Cardiff guideSt Mary's Abbey surrenders on November 26.
The York guideNational Theatre begins professional work
The Mostar guide
December
The conservatory museum opens on December 3.
The Naples guideFinland declares independence on 6 December.
The Helsinki guideThe Atlantic railway is completed on December 7.
The Costa Rica guideHoly Rosary opens, official pages give December 8 and December 9 respectively
The Vancouver guideUnterlinden’s expanded museum opens on December 12.
The Colmar guideThe Plaza Theatre opened on December 12 with Camille.
The Palm Springs guideFort Negley’s guns opened the Battle of Nashville on December 15.
The Nashville guideMuseum opened in Palacio Cantón on December 17.
The Merida guidePresent Teatro Peón Contreras inaugurated December 21.
The Merida guideCosima Liszt was born in Como on December 24.
The Lake Como guideRestoration of the republic is proclaimed on December 31.
The Geneva guide