📅 Today in HistoryApril 6

Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.

Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.

Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII crowns his son Romanos II as co-emperor.

The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople. The city falls on May 29 and is renamed Istanbul.

One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.

At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.

The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.

American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.

King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.