0421 Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman empire

1526 Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die

1575 University of Leiden Netherlands opens

1587 Mary, Queen of Scots looses her head

1600 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death

1601 Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London

1604 Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 forms de Monts Trading Company with Champlain and Gravé du Pont; Canada's first chartered company

1622 King James I disbands the English parliament

1631 Charles I grants Cape Breton Island to Robert Gordon of Lochinvar and son Robert

1631 King Louis XIII 1601-1643 names Charles de La Tour Governor and Lieutenant-General of New France and Acadia

1672 Isaac Newton reads first optics paper before Royal Society in London

1690 French &Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire

1690 Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal

1690 Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 organizes attack by Mohawk natives and French troops against Schenectady; 60 people killed, 30 captured

1693 William &Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US

1735 First opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston SC

1743 Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth

1744 French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon

1750 Minor earthquake in London

1775 Leidse University 400th anniversary dinner

1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock

1807 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau

1809 Franz I of Austria declares war on France

1839 Aroostook, New Brunswick American and Canadian loggers clash in Aroostook lumber war over undefined boundary with Maine

1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery AL

1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound

1863 Nathan Hale, American journalist and author, dies.

1865 The First black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany

1879 Sanford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time, by dividing the world into 24 equal time zones, with standard time within each zone

1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invent the fountain pen

1887 Dawes Act passed (Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)

1889 Flood ravages Dutch coast

1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks

1895 Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg

1898 John Ames Sherman patents first envelope folding &gumming machine (Massachusetts)

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next Page »