1574 Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1587 Deventer &Zutphen surrender to Spain
1613 Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1676 Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar of Russia
1732 Paris churchyard Saint-Médard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1788 Australia Day
1796 In Toronto, Yonge Street officially opened, running from the town of York up to Lake Simcoe
1802 John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress
1820 King George III of England, blind and insane, dies at Windsor Castle.
1834 President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1839 Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published (New York City NY)
1845 The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe's first poem, is published.
1848 Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
1850 Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
1856 Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery by the British Government
1860 American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1861 Kansas becomes the 34th state of the Union.
1863 Battle at Bear River WA US Army vs Indians
1864 Battle of Moorefield WV (Rosser's Raid)
1872 Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
1879 Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established
1886 The first successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1895 King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
1896 Emile Grubbe is first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
