| 42BC | Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus born in Rome | 2059 |
| 534 | final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published | 1484 |
| 1005 | Ælfric of Abingdon, Bishop of Ramsbury and Archbishop of Canterbury, dies in Canterbury, age unknown | 1013 |
| 1093 | English princess and Scottish queen Margaret of Scotland dies in Edinburgh Castle, age around 48 | 925 |
| 1272 | Henry III of England dies after a reign of 56 years, age 65 | 746 |
| 1414 | Council of Constance convenes | 604 |
| 1532 | Francisco Pizarro captures Atahualpa thereby conquering the Inca civilization | 486 |
| 1628 | Italian composer Paolo Quagliati dies, age around 73 | 390 |
| 1717 | birth of French mathematician Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert in Paris | 301 |
| 1776 | Hessen troops and British soldiers capture the patriot held Fort Washington on the northern end of Manhattan Island | 242 |
| 1776 | American brig Andrew Doria receives salute from Fort Oranje (island of St. Eustatius)—first salute to an American warship in a foreign port | 242 |
| 1801 | New York Post, established as the New-York Evening Post | 217 |
| 1871 | National Rifle Association of America is chartered in New York | 147 |
| 1885 | Canadian leader of the rights of the native Métis Louis David Riel executed for treason, age 41 | 133 |
| 1904 | British physicist John Ambrose Fleming patents the vacuum tube diode | 114 |
| 1907 | Oklahoma becomes the 46th state to enter the U.S. | 111 |
| 1914 | The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens | 104 |
| 1915 | distinctive Coca-Cola bottle patent is granted | 103 |
| 1934 | Alice Pleasance Liddell (Hargreaves) dies in Kent, England, age 82 | 84 |
| 1934 | German engineer Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde dies in Munich, age 92 | 84 |
| 1945 | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established | 73 |
| 1957 | Oklahoma Sooners football team win its 47th consective game—Division I-A record | 61 |
| 1960 | American actor William Clark Gable dies in West Hollywood, age 59 | 58 |
| 1965 | Venera 3 is launched by the Soviet Union on a mission to crash-land on the surface of Venus | 53 |
| 1970 | first flight of the Lockheed L-1011 wide-body airplane | 48 |
| 1973 | the bill authorizing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline signed | 45 |
| 1973 | third, and final crew, launches for 84 day stay aboard Skylab | 45 |
| 1974 | German technical physicist Fritz Walther Meissner dies in Munich, age 91 | 44 |
| 1982 | Soviet Russian mathematician Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov dies in Moscow, age 86 | 36 |
| 1992 | Hoxne Hoard discovered in Suffolk—largest collection of Roman gold, silver, and bronze coins of the 4th and 5th century ever found | 26 |
| 1999 | American microbiologist and Nobel laureate (1978) Daniel Nathans dies in Baltimore, age 71 | 19 |
| 2001 | American jazz pianist and composer Thomas Lee Flanagan dies in New York City, age 71 | 17 |
| 2004 | NASA's X-45A sets speed record for 'air-breathing' engine of Mach 10 | 14 |
| 2004 | Europe's solar-powered SMART-1 probe enters lunar orbit | 14 |
| 2005 | English animal rights advocate who coined the word 'vegan' and founded the U.K. Vegan Society Donald Watson dies, age 95 | 13 |
| 2005 | Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate (1983) Henry Taube dies in Palo Alto, California, age 89 | 13 |
| 2006 | American economist and Nobel laureate (1976) Milton Friedman dies in San Francisco, age 94 | 12 |
| 2007 | Norwegian comedian, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, author, director, and television host Trond Georg Kirkvaag dies in Oslo, age 61 | 11 |
| 2012 | last batch of Twinkies rolls off the production lines of Hostess after a run of 82 years | 6 |
| 2013 | American mathematician Oscar Lanford dies, age 73 | 5 |
| 2015 | American artist, designer, and film producer Michael C. Gross dies in Oceanside, California, age 70 | 3 |
| 2015 | American actor and five-time Emmy winner David Hoyt Canary dies in Wilton, Connecticut, age 77 | 3 |
| 2017 | fireball explodes over northern Finland | 1 |
| 2018 | International Committee for Weights and Measures votes to redefine the kilogram and retire the standard Le Grand K | 0 |
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 |