585 BCE
Eclipse of Thales
Event
On this day
393 events in the atlas are dated to 28 May, from 585 BCE to 2026. The best known come first; below them is every one, age by age, the most significant first.
585 BCE
Event
621 CE
Battle · East Asia
1754
War · North America · 1754 – 1763
1812
Treaty · Europe
1903
Political · Europe
2013
Protest · Middle East
Each event is listed under the date its sources give, as its page shows it. Before 1582, and in some countries later (Britain until 1752, Russia until 1918), that is a date of the Julian calendar, as on Wikipedia’s pages for each day.