What is October 6?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[105 BC]] &ndash; [[Battle of Arausio]]: The [[Cimbri]] inflict a major defeat on the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] army of [[Mallius Maximus]]. * [[69 BC]] &ndash; [[Battle of Tigranocerta]]: Forces of the [[Roman Republic]] defeat the army of the [[Kingdom]] of [[Armenia]] led by King [[Tigranes the Great]]. * [[23]] &ndash; Rebels kill and behead [[Xin Dynasty]] Emperor [[Wang Mang]] in [[China]]. * [[404]] &ndash; [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Empress]] [[Eudoxia]] ends her seventh [[pregnancy]] in a [[miscarriage]]. She [[Exsanguination|bleeds to death]] shortly after. * [[891]] &ndash; [[Pope Formosus|Formosus]] becomes [[Pope]]. * [[1539]] &ndash; Spanish [[conquistador]] [[Hernando de Soto]] and his army enter the [[Apalachee]] capital city of Anhaica, present–day [[Tallahassee]], [[Florida]]. * [[1582]] &ndash; Due to the implementation of the [[Gregorian calendar]] this day does not exist in this year in [[Italy]], [[Poland]], [[Portugal]] and [[Spain]]. * [[1600]] &ndash; [[Jacopo Peri]]'s ''[[Euridice]]'', the earliest surviving [[opera]], premieres in [[Florence]]. * [[1683]] &ndash; German immigrant families found Germantown, [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. * [[1762]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: End of the [[Battle of Manila]] between [[Great Britain|British]] and [[Spain|Spanish]] forces, resulting in British occupation of the [[city]] until the end of the war. * [[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: General Henry Clinton leads [[Great Britain|British]] forces in the capture of the [[Continental Army]] defenses on the Hudson River in the [[Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery]]. * [[1789]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: [[Louis XVI of France]] returns to [[Paris]] from [[Versailles]] after being confronted by Parisian woman on the previous day. * [[1849]] &ndash; [[Execution]] of the 13 [[Martyr]]s of Arad after the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848|Hungarian War of Independence]]. * [[1854]] &ndash; The [[Great fire of Newcastle an