1539 Emperor Karel & King François I sign anti-English treaty
1587 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence
1662 Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
1663 The town of Quebec is rocked by an evening earthquake
1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1709 Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
1717 Henri d'Aguesseau's first appointment as chancellor of France
1720 Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
1732 Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
1742 Sardinia & Austria sign alliance
1775 Peasants in Bohemia revolt against servitude.
1780 British Major John Graves Simcoe leads 200 of his Rangers in a foray into New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War
1783 William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
1788 First US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1789 Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1790 Supreme Court convenes for the first time (New York NY)
1793 France declares war on England & Netherlands
1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen
1796 Capital of Upper Canada transferred from Newark (Niagara) to York.
1799 Royal Assent given to change the name of Ile St. Jean (St. John's Island) to Prince Edward Island.
1809 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
1810 First insurance company managed by blacks (American Insurance Company of Philadelphia)
1810 Seville, Spain surrenders to the French
1810 US Population - 7,239,881; Black population - 1,377,808 (19%)
1814 Lord Byron's "The Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on the day of publication
