Trajan: Rome's Golden Age & Territorial Expansion (+ 6 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Jan 27, 2024 · 6m

A Daily Dose of History (27 Jan 2024)

Today's historical events:

Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.

Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence.

Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.

Spanish forces clash with indigenous Huilliches of southern Chile in the battle of Río Bueno.

American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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