0816 Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity

1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons

1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium

1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna

1556 Kings Henri I &Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles

1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Netherlands, drive nuns out

1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours

1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England

1644 First US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut

1649 Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II

1679 German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France

1736 Methodists John &Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah GA

1777 Georgia becomes first US state to abolish both entail &primogeniture

1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by first state, South Carolina

1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from the English

1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000

1783 Sweden recognizes the United States as an independent country.

1795 Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French General Michaud

1846 "Oregon Spectator" is first newspaper to be published on the West Coast

1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz NY

1855 British government of Palmerston forms

1861 First moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale

1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia PA

1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress

1864 Federals occupy Jackson MS

1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)

1870 The first motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia

1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow

1881 Phoenix, Arizona, is incorporated as a city.

1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London

1887 Snow falls on San Francisco

1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms

1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel

1900 British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal

1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot

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