📅 Today in HistoryOctober 6

Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic

Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia.

Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.

Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.

Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi.

Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.

Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.

Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.

Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.