facts_by_date 1.0.0

data/data/4/23.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"215 BC",
+            "text":"A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1014",
+            "text":"King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf freeing Ireland from foreign control"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1154",
+            "text":"Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1229",
+            "text":"Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Cáceres."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1343",
+            "text":"St. George's Night Uprising in Estonia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1348",
+            "text":"1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1500",
+            "text":"Pedro Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1501",
+            "text":"Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral & 6 ships return to Lisbon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1504",
+            "text":"King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1516",
+            "text":"Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses \"The German Beer Purity Law\" (Reinheitsgebot) and adds to it standards for the sale of beer"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1597",
+            "text":"William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"23",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1616",
+            "text":"Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/24.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1479 BC",
+            "text":"Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1184 BC",
+            "text":"The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"858",
+            "text":"Nicholas I succeeds Benedict III as pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1066",
+            "text":"Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1185",
+            "text":"Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1288",
+            "text":"Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1311",
+            "text":"Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1364",
+            "text":"Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1524",
+            "text":"Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1547",
+            "text":"Battle of Muhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1570",
+            "text":"Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1596",
+            "text":"Pacificatie of Ireland drawn"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1704",
+            "text":"\"Boston News-Letter\" 1st successful newspaper in US, forms"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1792",
+            "text":"\"La Marseillaise\" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1800",
+            "text":"Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1801",
+            "text":"1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio \"Die Jahreszeiten\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1823",
+            "text":"Eugene Scribes \"Le Menteur Veridique\" premieres in Paris"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"24",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1833",
+            "text":"Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent 1st soda fountain"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/25.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1185",
+            "text":"Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1449",
+            "text":"Anti-pope Felix V resigns"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1507",
+            "text":"German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st to use the name America on his world map Universalis Cosmographia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1541",
+            "text":"-26) Liege flooded after heavy down pour"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1604",
+            "text":"Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1607",
+            "text":"Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1614",
+            "text":"Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1626",
+            "text":"Battle at the Dessauer bridge: Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1660",
+            "text":"English Convention Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1678",
+            "text":"French troops conquer Ypres"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1684",
+            "text":"Patent granted for thimble"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1707",
+            "text":"Battle of Almansa; Franco-Spanish forces defeat British and Portuguese"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1719",
+            "text":"Daniel Defoes publishes \"Robinson Crusoe\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1747",
+            "text":"Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1792",
+            "text":"Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"25",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1829",
+            "text":"Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/26.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"757",
+            "text":"Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1220",
+            "text":"German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1336",
+            "text":"Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch famously climbs Mont Ventoux"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1467",
+            "text":"The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1478",
+            "text":"Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo de'Medici & kill Giuliano de'Medici"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1514",
+            "text":"Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1532",
+            "text":"Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1607",
+            "text":"1st British colony in American lands at Cape Henry, Virginia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1654",
+            "text":"Jews are expelled from Brazil"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1655",
+            "text":"Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1677",
+            "text":"Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1755",
+            "text":"1st Russian university opens (Moscow)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1777",
+            "text":"Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1803",
+            "text":"Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1814",
+            "text":"King Louis XVIII lands at Calais from England"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/27.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1124",
+            "text":"David I becomes King of Scots."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1296",
+            "text":"Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1509",
+            "text":"Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1518",
+            "text":"Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1522",
+            "text":"Battle at Bicacca: Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1522",
+            "text":"Battle of La Bicocca: a combined French and Venetian was decisively defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1526",
+            "text":"Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1539",
+            "text":"Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1565",
+            "text":"1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1576",
+            "text":"Peace of Beaulieu & Paix de Monsieur"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1578",
+            "text":"Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1643",
+            "text":"Tirso de Molina's \"Bellaco Sois, Gomez,\" premieres in Madrid"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1646",
+            "text":"King Charles I flees Oxford"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1650",
+            "text":"The Battle of Carbisdale: Royalist army under Marquess of Montrose invades mainland Scotland from Orkney; defeated by a Covenanter army."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]