1066 King Harald of England crowned

1099 Henry V crowned German king

1227 Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre

1352 French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star

1453 Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria

1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi

1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)

1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro

1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves

1579 Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras

1639 Virginia is first colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed

1643 Near Montreal, Quebec Paul de Chomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve, plants a wooden cross on Mount Royal to offer thanks to God for saving the settlement of Ville Marie from flooding.

1663 Great earthquake in New England

1681 First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)

1690 Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow

1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis

1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom

1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in the UK)

1784 Turkey &Russia sign treaty in Constantinople

1786 In Saint John, New Brunswick the first sitting of the New Brunswick legislature takes place at Saint John.

1838 Samuel F.B. Morse makes the first public demonstration of the telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey.

1839 2 day storm off Irish &English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind"

1842 4,500 British &Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India

1845 Protestants and Catholics riot in Stratford, Ontario following the council election; eighty men fight in the streets

1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania

1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola

1861 New York City NY mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N &S

1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"

1873 US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal

1880 Record snow cover in Seattle-120cm

1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms

1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast

1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony

1896 The first US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden

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