1504 By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon

1531 Kings Ferdinand of Austria/János Zápolyai of Hungary accept each other

1560 Spanish king Philip II marries Elisabeth van Valois

1578 Battle of Gembloers

1605 In Tokaido, Japan a major earthquake causes 5,000 deaths. and generates a Tsunami.

1606 Guy Fawkes, convicted of treason against England's King James I, is executed.

1609 Wisselbank of Amsterdam established

1627 Spanish government goes bankrupt where did all the New World gold go to?

1675 Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft

1696 Revolt of undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)

1747 Grand Pre, Nova Scotia Arthur Noble d1747 British commander at Grand Pre surprised by Villiers; loses 500 men

1779 Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog

1804 British Vice-Admiral William Bligh's fleet reaches Curaçao

1842 John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House

1849 Corn Laws abolished in Britain

1851 Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk

1851 In Hamilton Ontario Hamilton Gas Light Company installs first lamps.

1851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California founded

1854 Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)

1855 Western railroads blocked by snow

1861 State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans

1862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius

1863 The first black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army

1865 Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)

1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

1865 General Robert E. Lee becomes General-in-Chief of the Confederate troops.

1871 Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky

1874 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill MO

1880 An Ice Railway is opened between Longueuil and Montreal by the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway. A railway track was placed on large timbers laid on the ice of the St. Lawrence River. During the summer months the QMO&O used a car ferry. An ice railway was laid each winter until 1883.

1893 "Westminster Gazette" begins publishing

1895 José Martí &others leave New York City NY for invasion of Spanish Cuba

1901 Boer General John Smuts &De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal

1905 Carroll Wright appointed first US Commissioner of Labor

1905 The first auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach

1906 In Ecuador one of the 10 Largest Earthquakes of the World at 8.8 occurs

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