1323 Treaty of Paris
1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Islands for West Africa
1475 Michelangelo Renaissance artist Sistine Chapel ceiling, was born
1521 Magellan discovers Guam
1521 Magellan discovers the Mariana Islands.
1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
1590 Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
1619 Cyrano De Bergerac French soldier, author was born
1628 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
1646 Joseph Jenkes, Massachusetts, receives first colonial machine patent
1664 King Louis XIV &Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1714 Peace of Rastatt French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
1728 Spain &England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
1775 The first Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
1799 Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine
1808 The first college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1810 Illinois passes state vaccination legislation in US
1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy
1831 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula", premieres in Milan
1834 Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its first mayor
1836 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
1836 Frontiersman Davy Crocket dies as the Alamo falls to Mexican troops, ending a 13-day siege in San Antonio, TX.
