Day In History
This Day in History
Today: October 6, 2026
-105
Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic
-69
Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia.
23
Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.
404
Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.
618
Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi.
1539
Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.
1600
Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
1683
Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
1762
Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.
1777
American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
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