Day In History
This Day in History
Today: March 13, 2026
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The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.[1]
1567
The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.[2]
1591
At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.[3]
1639
Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.[4]
1697
Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.[5]
1741
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.[6]
1781
William Herschel discovers Uranus.[7]
1809
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809.[8]
1811
A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars.[9]
1826
Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.[10]
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