| 306 | Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor | 1711 |
| 315 | Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome | 1702 |
| 1261 | Constantinople is recaptured by the Byzantine general Alexios Strategopoulos restoring the Byzantine Empire by the Nicaeans | 756 |
| 1471 | Catholic monk and author Thomas à Kempis dies, age around 91 | 546 |
| 1603 | James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of England and Ireland uniting the kingdoms under personal rule | 414 |
| 1608 | Neapolitan Italian composer of the Renaissance Pomponio Nenna dies, age 51 | 409 |
| 1609 | Sea Venture is driven onto a reef after enduring a hurricane—begins the continuous English occupation of Bermuda | 408 |
| 1722 | Dummer's War between British settlers of the North American northernmost colonies and the Wabanaki Confederacy—ends in 1725 by treaty | 295 |
| 1797 | Horatio Nelson is defeated and loses his right arm in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 220 |
| 1814 | Battle of Lundy's Lane—American attack on Canada is repulsed in present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario | 203 |
| 1831 | Polish composer and professional virtuoso pianist Maria Szymanowska (born Marianna Agata Wo | 186 |
| 1834 | English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies, age 61 | 183 |
| 1837 | first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone in London | 180 |
| 1842 | French surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey, credited with introducing triage for battlefield casualties, dies in Lyon, age 76 | 175 |
| 1843 | Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics Charles Macintosh dies, age 76 | 174 |
| 1844 | American artist Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins is born in Philadelphia | 173 |
| 1861 | U.S. Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution—the Civil War is for the reunion of the states, not to end slavery | 156 |
| 1868 | Wyoming Territory is created by U.S. Congress—becomes a state 22 years later | 149 |
| 1893 | Corinth Canal through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece opens | 124 |
| 1898 | U.S. forces land on Puerto Rico—eventually the island is ceded to the U.S. by Spain in accordance to the Treaty of Paris | 119 |
| 1909 | Louis Blëriot is first person to fly an airplane across the English Channel | 108 |
| 1946 | first underwater nuclear explosion, Baker at Bikini Atoll, produced extensive radioactive contamination | 71 |
| 1956 | Robero Clemente is the only MLB player to hit a walk-off, inside-the-park grand slam in a 9-8 Pirates win over the Cubs | 61 |
| 1959 | British built SR.N1 becomes the first hovercraft to cross the English Channel—Calais to Dover in just over two hours | 58 |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5 on an orbital mission to Mars | 44 |
| 1978 | first human born from in vitro fertilization—Louise Brown in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England | 39 |
| 1984 | Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space—from Salyut 7 | 33 |
| 2000 | an Air France Concorde crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris killing 113—only crash of a Concorde | 17 |
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| 2007 | Pratibha Devisingh Patil becomes India's first female president | 10 |
| 2008 | American physical chemist and first to produce a synthetic diamond Howard Tracy Hall dies in Provo, Utah, age 88 | 9 |
| 2008 | American professor of computer science Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch gives his "Last Lecture" and dies, age 47 | 9 |
| 2010 | WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan—one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history | 7 |
| 2014 | Australian artist Richard Larter dies in Canberra, age 85 | 3 |
| 2016 | Solar Impulse 2 lands in Abu Dhabi completing the first circumnavigation of the earth by a solar powered plane | 1 |
Dates are always somewhat ambiguous, the exact date depends on whether local time is used (and local time where) or Universal Time—for events on the surface of the Earth, local time is probably best but for an event that spans across the planet, it is not clear which local time to use!.
For events in space it is more ambiguous.
Further for dates after the original adoption of the Gregorian calendar but before it became accepted in different countries, the date given may be a Julian date or a Gregorian date depending upon where the event occurred.
And, even the year may be different since the first of the year has not always been January 1 in all countries!
The attempt is to use a date that is the one that is typically given.
| day before yesterday | yesterday | tomorrow | day after tomorrow |