October 06: Mad Hatter Day (“It’s very easy to take more than nothing.”)

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📅 On this day in 1600:

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

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📅 On this day in 404:

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

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📅 On this day in 1683:

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

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📅 On this day in 1539:

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

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📅 On this day in 618:

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

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📅 On this day in 23:

Rebels decapitate Wang Mang, only Emperor of the Xin Dynasty, after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.

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