0314 St Militiades ends his reign as Catholic Pope

0532 Nika-revolt against Justianus &Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople

0705 John VI ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1158 Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king

1558 Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm

1569 The first recorded lottery in England is drawn at St Paul's Cathedral

1571 Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion

1599 Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove &muskaat

1672 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society

1693 Mt Etna erupts, Sicily

1709 Colley Cibber's "Rival Fools," premieres in London

1753 Ferdinand VI of Spain &Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord

1758 Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East-Prussia

1759 First American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia

1765 Frisia bans Voltaires "Traité sur la tolérance"

1774 Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog

1775 Francis Salvador becomes first Jew elected to office in America (SC)

1785 Continental Congress convenes in New York City NY

1787 Titania &Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel

1790 Statisten &Vonckisten unite as Belgium

1803 Monroe &Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy Louisiana

1805 The Michigan Territory of the U.S. was created.

1813 The first pineapples planted in Hawaii

1839 Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die

1861 Alabama secedes from the Union at the start of the U.S. Civil War.

1861 Mexico City captured by Juárez (Liberal) in War of the Reform

1863 CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston

1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Fort Hindman AR

1864 Charing Cross Station opens in London

1865 Battle of Beverly WV

1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220

1873 The first livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago

1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

1885 Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo

1892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded

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