10/5 Milestones

610 AD: Heraclius is crowned Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople and personally executes the previous emperor, Phocas. 869 AD: The Fourth Council of Constantinople, the eighth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, convenes to discuss the ecumenical patriarchate status of Photius of Constantinople. 1582 AD: Pope Gregory XIII institutes the Gregorian calendar, changing this date to October 15th (Friday). 1789 AD: Thousands of women in Paris, France, dissatisfied with high prices and bread shortages, march to the Palace of Versailles to protest. 1793 AD: Catholicism is temporarily abolished during the French Revolution. 1864 AD: Rev. Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell, Rev. Dr. David Douglas, Ng Chui-mun, and two believers land in Takow (present-day Kaohsiung Port) to explore the possibility of missionary work in Taiwan. 1908 AD: Ferdinand I declares the region of Bulgaria as the Kingdom of Bulgaria and crowns himself the first Bulgarian Tsar. 1910 AD: Portuguese republicans launch a revolutionary action against King Manuel II, ultimately succeeding in overthrowing the constitutional monarchy. 1913 AD: The Yuan Shikai government grants the railway construction rights for Manchuria and Mongolia to Japan.