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On October 28, 97: Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.

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Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.

AD 97 (XCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Rufus. The denomination AD 97 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.

People

Born on October 28

Yoon Do-young 2006– South Korean footballer (born 2006)
Sonay Kartal 2001– British tennis player (born 2001)
Nolan Gould 1998– American actor (born 1998)
Stetson Bennett 1997– American football player (born 1997)
Taylor Fritz 1997– American tennis player (born 1997)
Georgia Godwin 1997– Australian artistic gymnast
Jasmine Jessica Anthony 1996– American television program
Jack Eichel 1996– American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Una Raymond-Hoey 1996– Irish cricketer (born 1996)
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Glen Kamara 1995– Finnish footballer (born 1995)
Jae'Sean Tate 1995– American basketball player (born 1995)
An Ye-seul 1995– South Korean singer (born 1995)
Andrew Harrison 1994– American basketball player (born 1994)
Lexi Ainsworth 1992– American actress (born 1992)
Jeon Ji-hee 1992– Chinese-South Korean table tennis player
Maria Sergejeva 1992– Estonian figure skater and model
Lucy Bronze 1991– English footballer (born 1991)
Devin Ebanks 1989– American basketball player (born 1989)

People

Died on October 28

Renato Martino Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (1932–2024)
Paul Morrissey American film director (1938–2024)
Jamshid Sharmahd German affiliate of Kingdom Assembly of Iran (1955–2024)
Kazuo Umezu Japanese manga artist (1936–2024)
Matthew Perry American and Canadian actor (1969–2023)
Adam Johnson American ice hockey player (1994–2023)
Jerry Lee Lewis American musician (1935–2022)
Colin Sylvia Australian rules footballer (1985–2018)
Galway Kinnell American poet (1927–2014)
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Michael Sata President of Zambia from 2011 to 2014
Tetsuharu Kawakami Japanese baseball player and manager (1920–2013)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki 40th Prime Minister of Poland (1989–1991)
Aleksandar Tijanić Serbian journalist
Rajendra Yadav Indian writer (1929–2013)
Gordon Bilney Australian politician (1939–2012)
John Cheffers Australian rules footballer
Jack Dellal British property investor (1923–2012)
Tom Addington British Army soldier

Timeline

Every October 28 on record

  1. 97 Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.

    Calendar year

    AD 97 (XCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Rufus. The denomination AD 97 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.

  2. 306 Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.

    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.

  3. 312 Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.

    Roman emperor from 306 to 337

    Constantine I, also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, the Edict of Milan decriminalising Christian practice and ceasing Christian persecution. This was a turning point in the Christianisation of the Roman Empire.

  4. 969 The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.

    Continuation of the Roman Empire (330–1453)

    The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, it endured until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. The term 'Byzantine Empire' was coined only after its demise; its citizens used the term 'Roman Empire' and called themselves 'Romans'.

  5. 1344 The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Latin Christians in response to Aydınid piracy during the Smyrniote crusades.

    Anatolian beylik and pirates

    The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty (also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin, was one of the Turkish Anatolian beyliks and famous for its seaborne raiding.

  6. 1420 Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
  7. 1449 Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
  8. 1453 Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
  9. 1492 Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
  10. 1516 Second Ottoman–Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis Khan.
  11. 1520 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.
  12. 1531 Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.
  13. 1538 The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.
  14. 1628 French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months.
  15. 1636 The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
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  1. 1640 The Treaty of Ripon is signed, ending the hostilities of the Second Bishops' War.
  2. 1664 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
  3. 1707 The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.
  4. 1726 The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published.
  5. 1746 The 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake causes up to 6,000 deaths in Peru, the deadliest in its history up to that point.
  6. 1776 American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
  7. 1834 The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
  8. 1835 The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
  9. 1864 American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital of Richmond is repulsed.
  10. 1886 US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
  11. 1891 The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.
  12. 1893 Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
  13. 1918 World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
  14. 1918 World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
  15. 1919 The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

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