0410 Alaric sacks Rome
1248 Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
1385 Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
1598 Irish rebel Hugh O'Neill, the earl of Tyrone, annihilates an English force at Yellow Ford, marking the greatest Irish victory in the wars with the English
1756 French capture Fort Oswego, NY
1765 Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1784 First Russian colony in Alaska is founded on Kodiak Island.
1813 British warship Pelican attacks and captures US war brigantine Argus
1842 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
1848 Oregon Territory created
1862 Lincoln receives first group of blacks to confer with US president
1863 First Kanakas arrive in Brisbane for employment on cotton plantation.
1873 "Forest and Stream" begins publishing
1876 Prairie View State University forms
1880 Australia's first soccer club, The Wanderers, plays its first match, against Kings School, Parramatta, NSW.
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed
1893 France issues first driving licenses, included required test
1899 Bell Telephone Company installs Canada's first push-button pay phone in a Montreal drugstore connections made only after 5¢ deposit; made by Northern Electric, today's Nortel.
1900 Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners
1908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
1917 China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I
1919 The first plane flight between Montreal and Quebec; takes 5 hours, now it takes the same time but we now include the time to get to and from the airports
