Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 13
October 13: Festival dedicated to Fontus (Roman Empire)
- 54: Claudius was fatally poisoned by his wife Agrippina the younger, making her seventeen-year-old son Nero the next Roman Emperor.
- 1307: Thousands of members of the Knights Templar (pictured) were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair and subsequently tortured into "admitting" heresy.
- 1812: War of 1812: British troops and Mohawk warriors repelled an American invasion from across the Niagara River in the Battle of Queenston Heights.
- 1843: The Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, the oldest continually-operating Jewish service organization in the world, was founded in New York City.
- 1943: World War II: With a new government led by General Pietro Badoglio, parts of Italy switched sides to the Allies and declared war on the Axis Powers.
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