Day In History
This Day in History
Today: May 24, 2026
919
The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
1218
The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276
Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487
The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1567
Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
1595
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1607
Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, is founded.[1]
1621
The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1626
Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1667
The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
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