1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (estimated date)

1574 France begins 5th Holy War against Huguenots

1660 Charles XI becomes king of Sweden

1668 Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued

1672 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam

1689 Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England

1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge

1792 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)

1792 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres

1804 Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII

1813 First US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA

1846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated

1847 General Zachary Taylor leads US troops to defeat Mexican General Santa Anna and his army at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico.

1848 John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the US, dies of a stroke at age 80.

1852 "H M S Birkenhead" sinks off South Africa killing 420 troops

1854 Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein

1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US

1861 Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns

1861 President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington DC to take office

1869 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law

1870 Mississippi is readmitted to the Union, after the Civil War.

1874 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)

1883 Alabama becomes first US state to enact an antitrust law

1883 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Philadelphia)

1886 Aluminum manufacturing process developed

1886 London Times publishes world's first classified ad

1886 Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred," premieres

1887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco

1887 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die

1892 First college student government established, Bryn Mawr PA

1894 Stanley Cup Montréal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play

1895 Jaap Eden skates world record 10 km (17 56)

1895 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia

1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield

1898 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus

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