1570 Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas

1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh

1646 Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church

1653 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch

1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands

1692 Salem witch hunt begins

1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York NY

1704 Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 40, kidnap 100

1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die

1728 Georg F Händels opera "Siroe, re di Persia," premieres in London

1730 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy

1749 First edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published

1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages

1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves

1784 John Wesley charters Methodist Church

1794 US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin

1810 First US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia

1844 US Secretary of State Abel Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas Gilmer, and several others die when a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton explodes.

1847 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento

1849 The first gold-seekers arrived in San Francisco, aboard the ship California.

1854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon WI

1854 Slavery opponents meet in Ripon, WI, calling for a new political group (which became the Republican Party).

1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery

1861 The Colorado Territory is organized.

1862 The opera "La Reine de Saba" premieres (Paris)

1863 Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister GA

1864 Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond

1864 Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)

1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections

1878 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate

1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation

1883 First US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)

1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes

1888 Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres

1893 Edward Acheson, Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"

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