1570 Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1646 Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
1653 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch
1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1692 Salem witch hunt begins
1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York NY
1704 Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 40, kidnap 100
1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
1728 Georg F Händels opera "Siroe, re di Persia," premieres in London
1730 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy
1749 First edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
1784 John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1794 US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
1810 First US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
1819 First public performance of a Schubert song, "Schäfers Klageleid"
1826 M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
1827 The B&O Railroad is incorporated (and forever remembered on Monopoly game boards ).
1827 The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first railroad incorporated for the commercial transportation of people and freight
1828 Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener," premieres in Vienna
1835 Dr Elias Lönnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
1844 US Secretary of State Abel Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas Gilmer, and several others die when a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton explodes.
1847 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento
