0794 Church at Lindisfarne, England destroyed by Vikings

0871 Battle at Ashdown Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army

1198 Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III

1214 Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France

1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep the duchy for the crown

1558 French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais

1598 Genoa Italy expels Jews

1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy

1642 Astronomer Galileo Galilei dies in Arcetri, Italy at age 77.

1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)

1675 First American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co)

1675 The New York Fishing Company becomes the first corporation to be chartered in the U.S.

1679 Explorer and fur trader Cavalier de La Salle reaches Niagara Falls; one of his boats is wrecked on Lake Ontario on this day.

1705 Georg F Händels first opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg

1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested

1745 England, Austria, Netherlands & Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling

1746 The Burgh of Stirling surrendered to Jacobite Army but the Castle remained in Hanoverian hands.

1760 Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth

1790 George Washington delivers first "State of the Union" address

1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed

1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi

1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France

1806 Cape colony becomes English colony

1806 Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon

1811 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast

1815 Andrew Jackson's troops defeat the British at Chalmette in the Battle of New Orleans.

1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew

1838 Edward Theller 1804-1859 fires on Fort Malden from vessel 'Anne', while Thomas Sutherland occupies Bois Blanc Island; US sympathizers of rebels called Hunter's Lodges.

1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out

1838 The first telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, New Jersey

1842 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft

1847 Battle of San Gabriel (Navy, Marines, Army defeat Mexicans in CA)

1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia

1853 The first US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington

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