1419 French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War

1493 France cedes Roussillon & Cerdágne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona

1668 King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain

1714 Richard Steele publishes "The Crisis," defending Hanoverian success

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling

1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)

1790 Second Fleet sails from England with 1,006 convicts aboard for new settlement at Sydney Cove.

1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death

1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy

1806 Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope

1808 Louis Napoleon signs first Dutch aviation law

1810 Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50ºF (10ºC)

1812 British forces under Duke of Wellington take Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain.

1839 Aden conquered by British East India Company

1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)

1840 LT Charles Wilkes, USN is first American to discover Antarctic coast

1853 Napoleon III marries Eugénie de Montijo

1853 Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premieres, in Rome

1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede

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

1861 Georgia seceded from the Union.

1861 MS troops take Fort Massachusetts an Ship Island

1862 Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)

1863 General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland

1865 NV Suriname Bank established

1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson NC

1871 The first Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey

1885 Battle at Abu Klea Sudan 800-1000 killed

1886 Aurora Ski Club, first in US, founded in Minnesota

1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms

1900 Bubonic plague spreads from Adelaide to Sydney (103 were to die).

1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced

1903 The first regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England

1907 Variety magazine publishes film reviews for the first time.

1910 Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty

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