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On October 7, -3761: The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
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The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
The Hebrew calendar, also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits, and the schedule of public Torah readings. In Israel, it is used for religious purposes, provides a time frame for agriculture, and is an official calendar for civil holidays alongside the Gregorian calendar.
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-3761 The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar. Lunisolar calendar used for Jewish religious observances
The Hebrew calendar, also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits, and the schedule of public Torah readings. In Israel, it is used for religious purposes, provides a time frame for agriculture, and is an official calendar for civil holidays alongside the Gregorian calendar.
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1403 Venetian–Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon. Last major battle between the Venetians and the Genoese
The Battle of Modon was fought on 7 October 1403 between the fleets of the Republic of Venice and of the Republic of Genoa, then under French control, commanded by the French marshal Jean Le Maingre, better known as Boucicaut. One of the last clashes in the Venetian–Genoese wars, the battle ended in a decisive Venetian victory.
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1477 Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year. Research university in Sweden
Uppsala University (UU) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries.
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1513 War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice. Part of the War of the League of Cambrai
The Battle of La Motta, also known as the Battle of Schio, Battle of Vicenza or Battle of Creazzo, took place at Schio, in the Italian region of Veneto, Republic of Venice, on 7 October 1513, between the forces of the Republic of Venice and a combined force of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, and was a significant battle of the War of the League of Cambrai. A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish/Imperial army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos.
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1571 The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat. 1571 naval battle of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars
The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V and led by the navies of the Spanish Empire and the Republic of Venice, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras. The Ottoman forces were sailing westward from their naval station in Lepanto when they met the fleet of the Holy League which was sailing east from Messina, Sicily.
- 1691 The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
- 1763 King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
- 1777 American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat British forces under general John Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, compelling Burgoyne's eventual surrender.
- 1780 American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina, often regarded as the turning point in the war's Southern theater.
- 1800 French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent.
- 1826 The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
- 1828 Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force.
- 1840 Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
- 1864 American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
- 1868 Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
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- 1870 Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
- 1879 Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
- 1912 The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
- 1913 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line.
- 1916 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
- 1919 KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
- 1924 Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
- 1929 Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 1940 World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
- 1944 World War II: The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz was an uprising of prisoners (especially the Sonderkommando) at the Auschwitz concentration camp, they burnt down Crematorium IV.
- 1949 The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
- 1950 Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
- 1958 The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
- 1958 The U.S. crewed space-flight project is renamed to Project Mercury.
- 1959 The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
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Holidays on October 7
- Christian feast day: Justina of Padua
- Christian feast day: Henry Muhlenberg (some Lutheran Churches, Episcopal Church of the USA)
- Christian feast day: Osgyth
- Christian feast day: Our Lady of the Rosary
- Christian feast day: Pope Mark
- Christian feast day: Sergius and Bacchus
- Christian feast day: October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Teachers' Day (Laos)
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