0844 Gregory IV begins &ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1139 Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant

1327 King Edward III accedes to British throne

1348 Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000

1494 Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples

1533 King Henry VII of England secretly marries Anne Boleyn (his second of what would eventually come to be six marriages).

1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary

1565 Battle at Talikota India Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army

1579 Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic

1721 Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy

1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)

1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield MA

1791 British Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

1799 The first US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont

1802 Napoleon elected President of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic

1848 Last convict ship to Port Phillip in Victoria, the Marion, disembarks passengers.

1851 Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)

1856 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers &Indians

1858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March is performed for the first time in public, as the daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria marries the Prussian Crown Prince.

1858 Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia

1863 Battle of Kinston NC

1863 General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac

1865 The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia

1868 Senufe, Abyssinia, Canadian soldier Alexander Dunn killed when his hunting rifle accidentally went off; born at York, Upper Canada Sept. 15, 1833; first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross, for bravery as a lieutenant in the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Hussars at the 1854 charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava

1870 Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows

1875 Anti-slavery society formed in NY

1877 Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden

1878 Turkish steamer becomes the first ship to be sunk by a torpedo, fired from a Russian boat

1882 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms

1890 National Afro-American League forms in Chicago

1890 Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)

1890 New York World reporter Nellie Bly returns home after completing an around the world journey in just 72 days, six hours and eleven minutes.

1890 United Mine Workers of America forms

1894 James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title

1902 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg

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