1328 King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen

1458 Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary

1534 François I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy

1568 Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire

1568 In the Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw

1613 Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized

1616 Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver

1634 Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor

1639 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders

1644 Battle at Nantwich Cheshire Parliamentary armies win

1652 Duke of Orléans joins Fronde rebels

1656 The first Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland

1679 King Charles II disbands English parliament

1722 Czar Peter the Great begins civil system

1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed first US divinity professor (Harvard)

1742 German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor

1839 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society

1847 1,500 New Mexican Indians &Mexicans defeated by US Colonel Price

1848 Gold is discovered in California by James Marshall at Sutters Mill triggering the San Francisco gold rush of '49.

1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma CA

1861 Arsenal at Augusta GA seized by Confederacy

1861 Federal troops from Fort Monroe are sent to Fort Pikens

1862 Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza

1874 General J van Swieten conquers Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die

1874 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg Russia

1885 The CPR telegraph reaches the Pacific from Halifax; now operating from coast to coast.

1888 Jacob L. Wortman (of Philadelphia) receives a U.S. patent for the typewriter ribbon.

1892 Battle at Mengo, Uganda French missionaries attack British missionaries

1899 Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan

1900 Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)

1900 Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, formed in England

1901 Emily Hobhouse views Lord Kitchener's concentration camp at Bloemfontein

1902 Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA

1908 General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts

1908 Robert Baden-Powell organizes the first Boy Scout troop in England.

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