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On October 21, 310: Sixty-five days after being exiled by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, Pope Eusebius dies.

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Featured moment · 310

Sixty-five days after being exiled by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, Pope Eusebius dies.

Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius was a Roman emperor from 306 until his death in 312. Despite ruling in Italy and North Africa, and having the recognition of the Senate in Rome, he was not recognized as a legitimate emperor by his fellow emperors.

People

Born on October 21

Cameron Burgess 1995– Australian soccer player (born 1995)
Doja Cat 1995– American rapper (born 1995)
Antoinette Guedia Mouafo 1995– Cameroonian swimmer (born 1995)
Kane Brown 1993– American country pop singer (born 1993)
Natasha Bassett 1992– Australian actress
Marzia Kjellberg 1992– Italian businesswoman (born 1992)
Damion Lee 1992– American basketball player (born 1992)
Bernard Tomic 1992– Australian tennis player (born 1992)
Alexander Burmistrov 1991– Russian ice hockey player (born 1991)
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Tom Eastman 1991– English footballer (born 1991)
Geoffry Hairemans 1991– Belgian footballer
Rob Keogh 1991– English cricketer (born 1991)
Vadaine Oliver 1991– English footballer (born 1991)
Harry Pell 1991– Retired English footballer (born 1991)
Bengali-Fodé Koita 1990– Guinean footballer (born 1990)
Mathieu Peybernes 1990– French footballer (born 1990)
Ricky Rubio 1990– Spanish basketball player (born 1990)
Kristján Þórður Snæbjarnarson 1990– Icelandic politician (born 1980)

People

Died on October 21

Francisco Pinto Balsemão Prime Minister of Portugal from 1981 to 1983
Mimi Hines Canadian singer and comedian (1933–2024)
Bobby Charlton English footballer (1937–2023)
Bobi Revoked Guinness World Record holder for oldest dog ever
Bill Hayden Australian politician (1933–2023)
Bernard Haitink Dutch conductor (1929–2021)
Frank Bough English television presenter (1933–2020)
France Bučar Slovenian politician, legal expert and author
Marty Ingels American actor (1936–2015)
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Norman W. Moore British conservationist and dragonfly researcher (1923–2015)
Sheldon Wolin American political theorist (1922–2015)
Ben Bradlee Executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991
Nelson Bunker Hunt American businessman (1926–2014)
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani Iranian Ayatollah (1931–2014)
Edith Kawelohea McKinzie American genealogist and hula expert (1925–2014)
Gough Whitlam Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975
Bud Adams American football executive, owner (1923–2013)
Gianni Ferrio Italian composer (1924–2013)

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Every October 21 on record

  1. 310 Sixty-five days after being exiled by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, Pope Eusebius dies.

    Roman emperor from 306 to 312

    Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius was a Roman emperor from 306 until his death in 312. Despite ruling in Italy and North Africa, and having the recognition of the Senate in Rome, he was not recognized as a legitimate emperor by his fellow emperors.

  2. 685 Election of Pope Conon following the death of Pope John V.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 686 to 687

    Pope Conon was the bishop of Rome from 21 October 686 to his death on 21 September 687. He had been put forward as a compromise candidate, there being a conflict between the two factions resident in Rome — the military and the clerical. He consecrated the Irish missionary St Kilian and commissioned him to preach in Franconia.

  3. 1094 El Cid and his forces defeat a larger army of the Almoravids in the battle of Cuarte.

    Castilian warlord and Prince of Valencia from 1094 to 1099

    Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain. Fighting with both Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid, which would evolve into El Çid, and the Spanish honorific El Campeador. He was born in Vivar, a village near the city of Burgos.

  4. 1096 A Seljuk Turkish army successfully ambushes the People's Crusade at the Battle of Civetot.

    Turkish state in central Anatolia from 1077 to 1308

    The Sultanate of Rum, or Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, was a culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim state established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples (Rum) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. The name Rum was a synonym for the medieval Roman Empire and its peoples, as it remains in modern Turkish. The name is derived from the Aramaic and Parthian names for ancient Rome, which had reached these languages via the Greek Ῥωμαῖοι.

  5. 1097 First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.

    1096–1099 Christian re-conquest of the Holy Land

    The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, which were initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. Their aim was to return the Holy Land—which had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century—to Christian rule. By the 11th century, although Jerusalem had then been ruled by Muslims for hundreds of years, the practices of the Seljuk rulers in the region began to threaten local Christian populations, pilgrimages from the West and the Byzantine Empire itself.

  6. 1139 Zengi, atabeg of Aleppo, takes Baalbek from the Burid dynasty.
  7. 1187 Election of Gregory VIII following the death of Pope Urban III.
  8. 1392 Japanese Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
  9. 1512 Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
  10. 1520 João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
  11. 1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan.
  12. 1774 The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
  13. 1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
  14. 1805 Napoleonic Wars: A British fleet led by Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve in the Battle of Trafalgar.
  15. 1824 Portland cement is patented.
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  1. 1854 Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
  2. 1861 American Civil War: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war.
  3. 1867 The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in the western Indian Territory.
  4. 1879 Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
  5. 1888 The Swiss Social Democratic Party is founded.
  6. 1892 Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
  7. 1895 The capitulation of Tainan completes the Japanese conquest of Taiwan.
  8. 1907 The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
  9. 1910 HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
  10. 1912 First Balkan War: The Greek navy completes the capture of the island of Lemnos for use as a forward base against the Dardanelles.
  11. 1921 President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president against lynching in the Deep South.
  12. 1931 A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
  13. 1940 The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
  14. 1941 World War II: The Kragujevac massacre against Serbian men and boys takes place.
  15. 1943 World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.

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