0245 -BC- Origin of Era of Arsaces
0309 -BC- Origin of Seleucid Era
0419 [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1043 Edward the Confessor crowned king of England
1312 2nd council of Vienna
1376 Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France
1559 Spain & France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambr‚sis
1582 French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1645 English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
1721 Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury
1756 Marquis de Montcalm sails from France for Canada; he will die at the battle of the Plains of Abraham.
1764 Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 Sweden and US sign a treaty of Amity and Commerce
1790 Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
1797 CAPT Thomas Truxtun issued first known American signal book using numerary system
1826 Financial panic hits New Brunswick as word spreads that banks in London had failed and the timber trade had collapsed; so-called Black Monday.
1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher
1856 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph MO & Sacramento CA
1864 Skirmish at Okolona AR
1865 Battle at Namozine Church VA (Appomattox Campaign)
1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA & Petersburg VA
