WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. OCTOBER
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Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus. (6. October 105. BC)

Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic led by Lucullus defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great. (6. October 69. BC)

Rebels kill and decapitate the Xin Dynasty emperor Wang Mang two days after the capital Chang'an is sacked during a peasant rebellion. (6. October 23)

Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection shortly after. (6. October 404)

Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force. (6. October 1539)

Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. (6. October 1582)

Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period (6. October 1600)

German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America. (6. October 1683)

Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of 17. (6. October 1723)

Seven Years' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war. (6. October 1762)

American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery. (6. October 1777)

French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October (6. October 1789)

The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence. (6. October 1849)

England: The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. (6. October 1854)

The American Library Association was founded. (6. October 1876)

The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island. (6. October 1884)

American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. (6. October 1889)

The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. (6. October 1903)

Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking a crisis. (6. October 1908)

Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total). (6. October 1910)