1313 Peace of Angleur

1386 Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders

1539 Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo

1552 Dutch coast hit by heavy storm

1559 Hurricane wrecks Spanish expedition to start a colony near what is now Pensacola, Florida.

1563 Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania

1637 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor

1677 King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands

1686 Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris

1689 German Parliament declares war on France

1745 Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London

1763 Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg

1764 St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue

1768 First mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia

1775 Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI

1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent

1799 First US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania

1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery

1842 Postage stamps with adhesive on the back are sold for the first time at the New York City post office.

1845 William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, first uses 72" (183 cm) reflector

1848 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston

1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave

1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits first patient

1861 Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)

1862 Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson TN

1864 Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans

1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped

1870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth MN

1872 In Victoria British Columbia, the Provincial Legislature meets for the first time as a Province of Canada

1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down

1879 U.S. President Rutherford Hayes signs a bill enabling female lawyers to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

1881 Canadian Pacific Railway Act receives the Royal Assent. A Royal Charter pursuant to the Act was granted on February 16th - this incorporated the company. The principal terms provided for the payment to the railway of a subsidy of $25,000,000 and 25,000,000 acres of land, plus the railways (Port Arthur-Selkirk-Winnipeg-Emerson and Port Moody-Savona) already contracted for by the government, upon their completion.

1882 First cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin

1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans

1898 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die

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