This Day in History
Today: November 24, 2025
380
Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.[1]
1190
Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.[2]
1221
Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.[3]
1227
Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.[4]
1248
An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.[5]
1359
Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
1429
Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
1542
Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
1642
Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1750
Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
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