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On October 23, -4004: James Ussher's purported creation date of the world according to the Bible.

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James Ussher's purported creation date of the world according to the Bible.

James Ussher was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific Irish scholar and church leader, who today is most famous for his identification of the genuine letters of the church father, Ignatius of Antioch, and for his chronology that sought to establish the time and date of the creation as "the entrance of the night preceding the 23rd day of October ... the year before Christ 4004"; that is, around 6 pm on 22 October 4004 BC, per the proleptic Julian calendar.

People

Born on October 23

Niccolò Pisilli 2004– Italian footballer (born 2004)
Jacob Bethell 2003– English cricketer (born 2003)
Ningning 2002– Chinese singer (born 2002)
Yui Kobayashi 1999– Japanese model and member of Keyakizaka46
Amandla Stenberg 1998– American actress (born 1998)
Jordan Goodwin 1998– American basketball player (born 1998)
Nick Bosa 1997– American football player (born 1997)
Élie Okobo 1997– French basketball player (born 1997)
Jaydn Su'A 1997– Samoa international rugby league footballer
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Minnie 1997– Thai singer (born 1997)
Ireland Baldwin 1995– American fashion model (born 1995)
Margaret Qualley 1994– American actress (born 1994)
Josh Ruffels 1993– English association football player
Álvaro Morata 1992– Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Emil Forsberg 1991– Swedish footballer (born 1991)
Princess Mako of Akishino 1991– Former Japanese princess (born 1991)
Jorge Taufua 1991– Samoa & Tonga international rugby league footballer
Viktor Agardius 1989– Swedish footballer (born 1989)

People

Died on October 23

June Lockhart American actress (1925–2025)
Geoff Capes English shot putter and strongman (1949–2024)
Gary Indiana American writer, playwright and poet (1950–2024)
Jack Jones American singer and actor (1938–2024)
Aira Samulin Finnish dance teacher and businesswoman (1927–2023)
Bishan Singh Bedi Indian cricketer (1946–2023)
Adriano Moreira Portuguese politician (1922–2022)
Jerry Jeff Walker American country singer (1942–2020)
Todd Reid Australian tennis player (1984–2018)
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Walter Lassally British filmmaker (1926–2017)
Jack Chick American cartoonist (1924–2016)
Wim van der Voort Dutch speed skater
Pete Burns English singer (1959–2016)
Leon Bibb American folk singer (1922–2015)
Roger De Clerck Belgian entrepreneur (1924–2015)
Jim Roberts Canadian ice hockey player
Fred Sands American business executive and real estate investor
Ghulam Azam Bangladeshi writer and politician (1922–2014)

Timeline

Every October 23 on record

  1. -4004 James Ussher's purported creation date of the world according to the Bible.

    17th-century Anglican Archbishop of Armagh

    James Ussher was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific Irish scholar and church leader, who today is most famous for his identification of the genuine letters of the church father, Ignatius of Antioch, and for his chronology that sought to establish the time and date of the creation as "the entrance of the night preceding the 23rd day of October ... the year before Christ 4004"; that is, around 6 pm on 22 October 4004 BC, per the proleptic Julian calendar.

  2. -42 Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat an army under Brutus in the second part of the Battle of Philippi, with Brutus committing suicide and ending the civil war.

    Roman civil war after Caesar's assassination (43–42 BC)

    The Liberators' civil war was started by the Second Triumvirate to avenge Julius Caesar's assassination. The war was fought by the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian against the forces of Caesar's assassins, led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, referred to as the Liberatores. The latter were defeated by the Triumvirs at the Battle of Philippi in October 42 BC, and committed suicide.

  3. 425 Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six.

    Western Roman emperor from 425 to 455

    Valentinian III was Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455. Starting in childhood, his reign over the Roman Empire was one of the longest, but was dominated by civil wars among powerful generals and the barbarian invasions. He was the youngest sole emperor in the Western Roman Empire.

  4. 502 The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.

    Calendar year

    Year 502 (DII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Avienus and Probus. The denomination 502 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  5. 1086 Spanish Reconquista: At the Battle of Sagrajas, the Almoravids defeat the Castilians, but are unable to take advantage of their victory.

    Medieval Christian military campaigns

    The Reconquista or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military campaigns by northern Iberian Christian polities against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had previously been part of the Visigothic Kingdom before the Muslim Conquest of 711. The Reconquista concluded in 1492 with the capture of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, thereby ending the presence of any Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula.

  6. 1157 The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the Danish Civil War.
  7. 1295 The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
  8. 1448 Scotland wins a decisive victory over England at the Battle of Sark, the last pitched battle to be fought between the two kingdoms during the Medieval period.
  9. 1641 Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, so as to force concessions.
  10. 1642 The Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the English Civil War.
  11. 1666 The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the Fujita scale or T8 on the TORRO scale, strikes the county of Lincolnshire, with winds of more than 213 miles per hour (343 km/h).
  12. 1707 The First Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain convenes.
  13. 1798 The forces of Ali Pasha of Janina defeat the French and capture the town of Preveza in the Battle of Nicopolis.
  14. 1812 General Claude François de Malet begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon, claiming that the Emperor died in the Russian campaign.
  15. 1850 The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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  1. 1856 Second Opium War: Dissatisfied with imperial commissioner Ye Mingchen's reparations for the alleged slighting of a British-owned vessel and at Consul Harry Parkes's urging, British Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour launches an assault on the Barrier Forts outside Canton in the first military engagement of the Second Opium War.
  2. 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Westport is the last significant engagement west of the Mississippi River, ending in a Union victory.
  3. 1868 Meiji Restoration: Having taken the shogunate's seat of power at Edo and declared it his new capital as Tokyo, Mutsuhito proclaims the start of the new Meiji era.
  4. 1882 Assommoir bombing: Anarchists such as Fanny Madignier commit the first deadly anarchist attack in France.
  5. 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe.
  6. 1911 The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight.
  7. 1912 First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
  8. 1923 German October: Due to a miscommunication with the party leadership, a militant section of the Communist Party of Germany launches an insurrection in Hamburg.
  9. 1924 Second Zhili–Fengtian War: Warlord Feng Yuxiang, with the covert support of the Empire of Japan, stages a coup in Beijing against his erstwhile superiors in the Zhili clique, crippling their nearly victorious war effort against the Fengtian clique and forcing them to withdraw from northern China.
  10. 1927 The Imatra Cinema is destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people die in the fire and almost 30 are injured.
  11. 1940 Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War.
  12. 1941 The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories.
  13. 1942 World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
  14. 1942 All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a U.S. Army Air Force bomber near Palm Springs, California.
  15. 1942 World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal.

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