On October 15
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly October 15 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Oct 12 – Oct 18)
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…
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 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.
On 18 October 1685 Louis XIV issued the Edict of Fontainebleau, revoking the Edict of Nantes (1598) and stripping France's Protestant Huguenots of the legal toleration they had held for nearly a century.
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…
On 17 October 1887 France formally established the Indochinese Union (Union indochinoise), binding together the directly ruled colony of Cochinchina with the protectorates of Annam, Tonkin and Cambodia under a single Governor-General.
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.