The Second Triumvirate, consisting of Octavian (later Augustus), Mark Antony, and Lepidus, is formed in Rome.
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The forces of the Second Triumvirate, consisting of Octavian (later Augustus), Mark Antony, and Lepidus, defeat the forces of Brutus and Cassius at the Battle of Philippi.
Parthian forces under Pacorus I defeat the Roman general Publius Ventidius at the Battle of Amanus, temporarily reversing Roman setbacks in the East.
Pope Urban II delivers a sermon during the Council of Clermont in France urging Christians to reclaim the Holy Land, sparking the First Crusade. More
The People's Crusade, a precursor to the First Crusade. It was a disorganized popular movement led by Peter the Hermit and others, with thousands of peasants and commoners embarking on a journey to the Holy Land.
The Crusaders, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, enter Jerusalem during the First Crusade and captured the city.
The first Eddystone Lighthouse in England and one of the world's earliest lighthouses, built by Henry Winstanley and completed in 1699, is destroyed in a storm on November 27, 1703. Winstanley and his five assistants inside the lighthouse perished. The loss of the first lighthouse led to a series of subsequent lighthouses on the Eddystone Rocks.
The Portuguese Royal Family, D João VI and its court of over 10,000 people, leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil aboard 36 vessels to escape the invading Napoleonic troops. The travelers arrived in Rio on March 7, 1808. The stay lasted until 1820 when D João VI went back to Portugal leaving his eldest son Pedro in charge. Pedro remain in Brazil and in 1822 led the move for Brazilian independence from Portugal and declared himself Emperor. More
Alfred Bernhard Nobel signed the final version of his will, leaving the bulk of his immense fortune to a fund for the financing of annual honorary awards to be made in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature and peace. He died a year later on December 1896. The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. More
A private event at New York City’s famous Rainbow Room, with Kenny G, Aerosmith, 50 Cent and other stars, makes the headlines when it became known that it was a $10 million bat mitzvah for 13 year old Elizabeth Brooks, daughter of David H. Brooks, founder and CEO of DHB Industries a defense contractor and body-armor maker.
Two years after the lavish event, which received much coverage and social media criticism, Brooks was served with a 21-count federal indictment, for securities fraud, insider trading, tax evasion and obstruction of justice including raiding his company’s coffers for personal gain including the $10 million he used to pay for his daughter’s bat mitzvah. He was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to 17 years in prison where he died in 2016. More