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

1814 Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200

1840 The first U.S. college of Dentistry is chartered in Baltimore, MD.

1851 Anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies.

1851 Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein.

1851 Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53.

1854 Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec; government transfers to Toronto; hastens the decision to move to Ottawa

1858 Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; miners required to buy licenses to search for gold in the Fraser Valley.

1861 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands

1861 Texas votes to secede from the Union.

1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

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