1472 Orkney and Shetland annexed to the crown of Scotland as security for the dowry of Princess Margaret, daughter of Christian 1, King of Norway and Denmark, and wife of James 111 of Scotland.

1525 Swiss &German mercenaries desert François I's army

1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII

1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies

1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth

1673 First recorded wine auction held (London)

1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Netherlands

1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty

1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Fort August, Scotland

1768 First American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)

1792 US postal service created; postage 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance

1809 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the federal government's power is greater than any individual state.

1811 Austria declares bankruptcy

1816 Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome

1839 Anti-duelling law was passed by US Congress

1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore

1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die

1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms

1864 Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida

1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis

1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin

1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags

1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.

1872 Silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine

1877 First cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY

1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance

1895 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.

1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO

1899 Illinois Tel &Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system

1901 First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes

1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks &damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco

1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco

1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die

1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt

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