Day In History
This Day in History
Today: August 21, 2026
959
Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
1140
Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
1169
Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin.[1]
1192
Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i Taishōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: the 12th day of the seventh month in the third year of the Kenkyū (建久) era).[2]
1331
King Stefan Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stefan Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia.[3]
1415
Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Conquest of Ceuta.[4]
1680
Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1689
The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.[5]
1716
Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the Battle of Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, thus preserving the Ionian Islands under Venetian rule.[6]
1770
James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
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