1098 Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch

1535 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets

1549 Tomé de Sousa appointed Governor-General of Brazil

1635 Académie Française is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)

1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster MA

1713 Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier

1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France

1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England

1746 English Pelham government resigns

1749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published

1763 The French and Indian War ends with signing of the Treaty of Paris. As part of the treaty, Canada is ceded to England by the French.

1763 The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763 ending the French and Indian War.

1772 1771 Maratha forces from the Deccan Plateau drive the Afghans out of Delhi, install the son of the exiled Mughal emperor Shah Alam as temporary ruler

1774 Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit

1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres

1802 In London England Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being first to cross the North American continent by land

1807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress

1840 Queen Victoria of England marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1846 Beginning of Mormon march to west US

1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India

1855 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship

1859 General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny

1860 John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres

1862 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms

1863 Frist US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia

1863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York NY)

1866 Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms

1868 Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida

1870 City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)

1870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York NY)

1878 Peace of Zanjón

1878 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres

1879 First electric arc light used (California Theater)

1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo

1883 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee WI, kills 71

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