0506 King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out

0962 Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor

1032 Burgundy's Rudolph III dies childless February 2 The Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II claims Rudolph's realm under terms of a 1027 treaty of succession and unites it with the empire

1032 Koenraad II succeeds Rudolf III as king of Bourgundy

1119 Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II

1141 Battle at Lincoln King Stephen captured

1461 2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrians defeat Yorkists

1535 Argentine city of Buenos Aires is founded.

1536 Buenos Aires, Argentina, is founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.

1550 English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed

1633 M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome

1637 Zorilla's "El más Impropio Verdugo Para Las," premieres in Madrid

1645 Royalist army led by James graham, 5th Earl and 1st Marquis of Montrose routed the Earl of Argyll's Covenating forces in the Battle of Inverlochy.

1653 New Amsterdam now known as New York City is incorporated.

1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later New York NY)

1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"

1714 Nicholas Rowe's "tragedy of Jane Shore," premieres in London

1731 Georg F Händels opera "Poro," premieres in London

1732 King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia

1742 British Walpole government resigns

1762 Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London

1795 Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres

1798 Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes first in US destroyed by fire

1802 First leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25¢)

1811 Russian settlers establish Fort Ross trading post, north of San Francisco

1843 US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose governmental committee

1848 The Mexican War formally ends, with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

1848 The first shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco

1852 First British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)

1863 Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for first time

1864 Cruise of CSS Florida

1869 James Oliver invents the removable tempered steel plow blade

1870 Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira NY

1870 The Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum

1876 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs is formed in New York City.

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