1072 Palermo falls to Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger, who begin to conquer all of Sicily
1429 Order of the Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
1430 Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
1430 Order of the Guilder forms
1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
1642 King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
1663 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
1731 Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
1776 Thomas Paine publishes his famous pamphlet, Common Sense.
1806 Dutch in Cape Town, South African surrender to the British
1808 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies
1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Joséphine
1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes
1811 Norwester David Thompson 1770-1857 crosses the height of land of the Rocky Mountains on the Athabasca Pass
1815 British Government bans Americans from settling in Canada
1817 Miles Macdonnell recaptures Fort Douglas from Metis; occupies the Fort for Lord Selkirk
1839 Tea from India first arrives in UK
1840 Penny Post mail system started
1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
1847 American naval forces occupy Los Angeles.
1850 Robert McClure & Richard Collinson set sail in the Enterprise and Investigator to start search for lost Franklin expedition
1861 Colonel Moody names Lulu Island (near Vancouver) for Lulu Sweet, an American actress appearing in theatrical performances for the Royal Engineers
1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
1861 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by Los Angeles state troops
