1129 Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II

1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)

1536 France & Turkey sign military/trade agreement against King Karel

1546 Martin Luther, who started the Lutheran religion, dies in Germany.

1563 Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Méré shoots General François De Guise

1564 Michelangelo dies in Rome.

1574 Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels

1634 Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution

1678 John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" is published

1688 First vote against slavery is recorded in the U.S. in Germantown, PA.

1713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curaçao

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness Scotland

1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor

1841 A continuous filibuster in US Senate begins, lasting until March 11

1849 First regular steamboat service to San Francisco CA starts gold rush prospectors from east coast

1850 California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties

1857 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo

1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery AL

1861 King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes first king of Italy

1864 The Mark Twain classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is published in the U.S.

1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie SC occupied by Federals

1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city

1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson NC

1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand

1879 Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha

1884 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum

1884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"

1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published

1891 Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan

1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for first time in 50 years

1899 80º F, San Francisco CA

1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports

1900 Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured

1900 British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal

1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner

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