0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
0918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes
1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen
1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sá founds Rio de Janeiro
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
1634 Battle at Smolensk; Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the first incorporated American city
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, &Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA)
1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
1755 In Quebec city Quebec Jean-Armand Dieskau is appointed commander of the French regular troops in Canada
1780 Pennsylvania becomes first US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1781 The US Continental Congress adopts its Articles of Confederation
1784 E Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain
1790 A US census to establish the population is authorized
1790 Congress authorizes the first US Census survey.
1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed
1803 Ohio becomes 17th state
1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed &Non-Intercourse Act signed
1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
