1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratríci

1487 Bell chimes invented

1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland

1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland

1595 Shakespere's "Romeo and Juilet" was first performed

1646 Father de Nouë, a Jesuit priest, freezes to death in a blizzard on the way to Fort Richelieu

1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400,

1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded.

1667 Treaty of Andrussovo Russia &Poland sign peace treaty

1713 England &Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty

1774 Captain Cook reaches 71º 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)

1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland

1790 Lifeboat first tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor

1797 Congress refuses to accept first petitions from American blacks

1800 US population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)

1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River

1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover

1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes

1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco

1853 Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugénie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman

1854 The first election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast

1858 Charles Hallé founds Hallé Orchestra in Manchester

1858 William Wells Brown published first Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"

1862 US Navy's first ironclad warship (Monitor) launched

1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces

1879 French President MacMahon resigns

1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test

1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for New South Wales against Victoria

1889 Austria's Archduke Rudolph, 31, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Marie Vetser, 17, at Rudolph's hunting lodge Mayerling outside Vienna

1889 Victoria beat New South Wales after following on (New South Wales all out 63 needed 76)

1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test

1892 Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out

1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit

1894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham

1895 C J Eady (Tasmania) first Australian to score twin centuries (vs Victoria)

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