1057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
1519 Panama City founded
1535 Asuncion, Paraguay founded
1620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
1748 United Lutheran Church of US organized
1808 A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries
1822 Census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000.
1832 Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism
1834 South Australia Act is passed by Britain's Parliament, allowing for establishment of colony there.
1843 National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
1858 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins
1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1864 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed
1889 The Great London dock strike from August 15 to September 16 helps extend British trade unionism from the skilled classes to the less skilled
1893 US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
1900 Regular service is commenced over the 3'0" gauge White Pass and Yukon Railway between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon.
1901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
1903 New Zealand wins first rugby union test against Australia, 22-3.
1906 First freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1907 Members of Australia's federal parliament vote themselves their first pay rise, of 50 per cent.
1914 Panama Canal opens (under cost)
1917 Prv. Michael James O'Rourke (7th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70 France
1918 First full length cartoon (The Sinking of the Lusitania)
