0754 Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal
1536 Catherine o fAragon, the divorced first wife of King Henry VIII of England dies
1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French under Francois, Duke of Guise
1566 Antonio Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1579 England signs an offensive &defensive alliance with the Netherlands
1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia &Holy Roman empire
1598 Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I
1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 Galileo discovers3 of Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa &Ganymede
1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
1622 Germany &Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Netherlands, 1 dies
1691 Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 is forced to issue card money to pay the troops in the Quebec garrison, due to the non-arrival of a supply ship.
1698 Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Netherlands to England
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1761 Afghans defeat Mahrattas at Paniput in India.
1761 Battle at Panipat India Afghan army beats Mahratten
1782 The first commercial bank in the U.S., the Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia.
1784 The first US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1785 The first balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard &Jeffries)
1789 George Washington is voted in as U.S. president in the first nationwide election
1807 A British Order in Council January 7 prohibits neutral nation ships from trading with France and her allies, but while the Royal Navy blockades Napoleon's ports, the French are agriculturally self-sufficient and suffer less than do the British
