1502 Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism

1624 English parliament comes together

1709 Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe")

1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah

1736 Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor François I)

1762 English fleet occupies Martinique

1763 John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs

1772 Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India

1773 Savannah, Georgia is founded by English colonists, led by James Oglethorpe.

1793 US fugitive slave law passed which requires return of escaped slaves

1800 Abraham Lincon was born in Kentucky

1816 St. John's Newfoundland is almost completely destroyed by a fire

1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300

1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK

1865 Henry Highland Garnet, is first black to speak in US House of Representatives

1870 Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada

1870 Women residents of the Utah Territory are granted the right to vote.

1873 Congress abolishes bimetallism &authorizes $1 &$3 gold coins

1874 King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island HI, is first king to visit US

1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop

1877 American railroad workers strike against wage reduction

1877 First news dispatch by telephone, between Boston &Salem MA

1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)

1879 Artificial ice is created in at Madison Square Garden for the first time

1879 News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London

1882 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam

1885 Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society

1886 2nd British government of Salisbury forms

1892 President Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday.

1899 -47ºF (-44ºC), Camp Clarke NB (state record)

1901 Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed

1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska &Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel

1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded

1912 China adopts the Gregorian calendar

1912 Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates

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