Farewell Sermon: Muhammad's Legacy (+ 14 more historical events on this day!)

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A Daily Dose of History (06 Mar 2026)

Today's historical events:

• The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
• The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.
• Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete.
• The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
• Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.
• Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
• Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
• The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.
• The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
• The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
• York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
• Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
• The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7-2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
• Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.

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