On This Day: October 6th

Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic

Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdues Armenia.

American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.

Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

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

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

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

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

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

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