0715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1241 Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans

1667 First public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)

1682 La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France

1682 Louisiana USA René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 erects a cross and proclaims the Mississippi delta the property of Louis XIV

1766 The first fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley &chain

1770 Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)

1789 House of Representives first meeting

1802 French Protestant church becomes state-supported &-controlled

1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)

1838 National Galley opens in London

1838 Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC) beginning of the end of the Age of Sail

1861 Asteroid 66, Maia discovered

1861 H P Tuttle discovers asteroid #66 Maja

1861 Second relief convoy for Fort Sumter left New York

1861 US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy

1864 Battle of Mansfield, La Federals routed by Gen Richard Taylor

1865 Federals capture Ft Blakely, Alabama

1865 Lee's retreat cut off near Appomattox Court House

1865 Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to US Grant at Appomattox

1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto

1869 Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada

1870 American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves

1893 The critic reports that the ice cream soda is our national drink

1898 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese

1904 Entente Cordiale signed by France &England

1906 3«th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS)

1907 P Lowell discovers asteroid #793 Arizona

1908 Herbert Henry Asquith becomes PM of England

1912 Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200

1913 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified

1914 First full color film shown "The World, The Flesh and the Devil" (London)

1914 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway main line is completed between Winnipeg, Melville, Edmonton, Jasper and Prince Rupert.

1914 US &Columbia sign a treaty concerning the Panama Canal Zone

1917 Battle of Arras begins

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