On October 13
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly October 13 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Oct 10 – Oct 16)
On 12 October 1492 an expedition led by the Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus, financed by the Crown of Castile, made landfall on an island in the Bahamas that its Lucayan inhabitants called Guanahani and that Columbus renamed San…
The Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing dynasty and ended more than two thousand years of imperial rule in China.
For thirteen days in October 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than at any other point in the Cold War. After U.S.
On 10 October 680 CE, near Karbala in present-day Iraq, a small band of relatives and supporters of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad, was surrounded and massacred by the far larger army of the Umayyad caliph Yazid I.
On 16 October 690 CE, Wu Zetian formally declared herself huangdi (emperor), supplanting the Tang dynasty with her own short-lived Zhou dynasty and becoming the only woman in the history of China to rule as emperor in her own right rather…
The death of the childless King Edward the Confessor in January 1066 triggered a contested succession to the English throne.
Fought from 16 to 19 October 1813 around Leipzig in Saxony, the Battle of the Nations was the largest engagement of the Napoleonic Wars and one of the largest in European history before the twentieth century, involving more than half a…
The Second Vatican Council, convened by Pope John XXIII and continued under Pope Paul VI, met in St. Peter's Basilica in four sessions from 11 October 1962 to 8 December 1965.
On 12 October 2002 militants linked to the Southeast Asian jihadist network Jemaah Islamiyah detonated bombs in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali.