📅 Today in HistoryJuly 23

Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.

A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.

Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.

Scanian War: Denmark-Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.

Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.

Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.

While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Asia Minor's coasts.

In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.

The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.

American Civil War: Henry Halleck becomes general-in-chief of the Union Army.