Hugh Capet was crowned King of the Franks on July 3, 987, at Noyon or Reims, ending the 99-year conflict between competing noble houses. and establishing the Capetian dynasty that ruled France until 1328. As Duke of the Franks, he succeeded the last Carolingian, Louis V, transitioning power away from the Carolingian line.
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Circa 987, July 3
Hugh Capet is crowned as the King of the Franks c. July 3, 987 ending the almost three century rule of the Carolingian dynasty and marking the beginning of the Capetian dynasty and the consolidation of power in France, laying the foundation for the French nation-state.
Hugh Capet was the first of a direct line of 14 Capetian kings who ruled France until 1328. The dynasty came to an end with the death of Charles IV of the Franks, without a male heir in 1328. More
William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, becomes the Duke at the age of 8, on July 3, 1035, after the death of his father, Robert I.
The Battle of Ain Jalut occurs between the Mongol Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate, resulting in a decisive Mamluk victory and halting the Mongol expansion into the Middle East.
King Charles II of England grants a charter establishing the Carolina Colony, named in honor of his father, Charles I.
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George Washington formally takes command of the fledgling Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 3, 1775 and begins taking the crucial steps to unify the colonial militias into a national force during the American Revolution.
Idaho is admitted into the Union becoming the 43rd State.
Iran Air Flight 655, a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas was shot down on July 3, 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a United States Navy warship, shortly after the flight departed its stopover location. All 290 people on board, including 66 children, were killed.
The missiles hit the Iran Air Airbus A300, while it was flying its usual route over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The US claimed the ship's radar misidentified the plane as a fighter aircraft. Subsequent US Navy investigations of the incident showed the Iranian airliner was in an approved commercial airway and was identifying itself on air traffic control frequencies as a civilian flight. In 1996, the United States paid US$61.8 million in compensation to the families of victims as part of a settlement with Iran. More
Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, is overthrown in a military coup.