On This Day in History for August 13
Events in History
- 3114 BC According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Mayan calendar
- 523 St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1099 Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
- 1326 Neopagan religious figure Aradia de Toscano initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, goes on to found tradition of Stregheria (according to Wicca writer Raven Grimassi)
- 1415 King Henry V of England lands his army at the mouth of Seine River in France
- 1516 The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis recognises Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan.
- 1521 Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire
- 1536 Buddhist monks from Kyōto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
- More Events in History
William Caxton
Annie Oakley
John Logie Baird
Fidel Castro
Hissène Habré
Janet YellenWeddings in History
- 1514 French King Louis XII (52) marries by proxy Mary Tudor (18), sister of Henry VIII, at Greenwich Palace, England
- 1868 Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier (26) weds Zoé Lafontaine (27) in Montreal, Canada
- 1943 Evangelist Billy Graham (24) weds philanthropist and Christian author Ruth Bell (23) in Montreat, North Carolina
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Collis P. Huntington
Florence Nightingale
H. G. Wells
W. O. Bentley
David LangeAugust in History
Ship of Gold Sails Into Oblivion
A frigate with more than 150 souls on board, as well as nearly three tons of gold, sailed out of Melbourne on this day – never to be seen again.
August 12, 1853
Manhattan Project
'Calutron Girls' monitoring a mass spectrometer during the Manhattan Project. Gladys Owens, in the foreground, did not know what she was involved with until seeing this picture on a tour fifty years later.
August 13, 1942
Defiance in the Hundred Years' War
Up Yours! Threatened archers develop a new sign of defiance as the blistering Hundred Years' War continues to rage between England and France.
August 13, 1415
A Royal Fantasy!
Otto Witte, a German acrobat and fantasist
August 13, 1913