1267 Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps

1499 France &Venice sign treaty against Milan

1537 Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England

1540 The first recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)

1554 Battle at London Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated

1574 Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht

1621 Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV

1667 Treaty of Andrussovo Russia/Poland signs peace treaty

1674 English re-conquer New York from Netherlands

1682 Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London

1742 British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford

1744 Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews)

1760 In Louisbourg Nova Scotia, Captain John Byron 1723-1786 starts tearing down the fortifications of Louisbourg on orders from British PM William Pitt

1775 English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion

1788 Austria declares war on Russia

1799 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, West Indies

1801 France &Austrian sign Peace of Lunéville

1807 French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon

1849 Roman Republic declared

1861 Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states

1861 Jefferson Davis &Alexander Stephens elected president &Vice President of CSA

1861 Tennessee votes against secession

1863 Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane

1867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state

1870 Grant signs the bill establishing Federal Meteorological Service

1871 Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress

1877 US weather service established

1885 The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii

1886 President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence

1891 First shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento

1893 Canal builder De Lesseps &others sentenced to prison for fraud

1895 Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts

1900 Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup

1904 Japan declares war on Russia

1906 Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising

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