1472 Orkney and Shetland annexed to the crown of Scotland as security for the dowry of Princess Margaret, daughter of Christian 1, King of Norway and Denmark, and wife of James 111 of Scotland.
1525 Swiss &German mercenaries desert François I's army
1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies
1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth
1673 First recorded wine auction held (London)
1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Netherlands
1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty
1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Fort August, Scotland
1768 First American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)
1792 US postal service created; postage 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance
1809 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the federal government's power is greater than any individual state.
1811 Austria declares bankruptcy
1816 Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1823 English Captain James Weddell reaches 74º 15' S, 1520 km from South Pole
1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
1832 Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
1835 Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake
1839 Anti-duelling law was passed by US Congress
1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die
1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
1864 Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida
1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
