1095 Council of Rockingham bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus

1358 Dalmatië flees Venice

1497 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France

1502 Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine

1540 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola México

1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance

1605 Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen

1623 Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts

1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein

1643 Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-Indians

1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River

1746 Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen

1751 First performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢)

1793 US President George Washington and his department heads hold their first Cabinet meeting.

1799 Congress passes first federal quarantine legislation

1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states

1804 Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus

1838 Canadian militia routs American republican sympathizers on Fighting Island, in the Detroit River

1839 Seminoles &black allies shipped from Tampa Bay FL, to the West

1847 State University of Iowa is approved

1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving &Printing

1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln

1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency

1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act

1870 Hiram Revels, Mississippi, is sworn in as first black member of Congress (Senator)

1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill

1879 Congress passed first Timberland Protection Act

1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds

1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea

1899 Paul Julius Reuter, founder of the eponymous British news agency, dies in Nice, France.

1901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan

1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic

1908 The tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens

1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies

1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax

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