This Day in History
Today: April 6, 2026
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Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.[1]
402
Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.[2]
1320
The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.[3]
1453
Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople. The city falls on May 29, and is renamed Istanbul.[4]
1580
One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.[5]
1652
At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
1712
The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
1776
American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
1782
King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.
1793
During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
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