0350 General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans

0532 Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die

1307 German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia

1478 Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod

1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV

1520 Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde

1535 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru

1535 The city of Lima, capital of present-day Peru, is founded by Spanish conquistadors on the central Pacific coast of South America.

1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's first UFO sighting

1650 French Prince Louis II of Condé captured

1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panamá

1691 English king Willem III travels to The Hague

1701 Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia

1733 The first polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)

1777 San Jose CA founded

1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)

1778 HMS Supply, first ship of Britain's "First Fleet" to Australia, reaches Botany Bay (Sydney).

1795 French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance

1795 Governor/Viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England

1840 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, first US electrical journal, appears

1850 British blockade Piræus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims

1854 Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW México

1861 Georgia joins the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War.

1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed

1865 Battle of Fort Moultrie SC

1871 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck

1871 William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor.

1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum

1896 British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa

1896 The first demonstration of an x-ray machine in the US, New York City NY

1905 French government of Combes falls

1907 Variety magazine publishes film reviews for the first time.

1911 The first shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)

1912 English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before

1913 Greek and Turkish naval forces battle off Tendos Isle.

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