1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden &Denmark
1702 England's Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1706 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established
1711 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1746 Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
1754 Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain
1766 Willem V (18) becomes Governor of United Provinces
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre Ohio militia kills 90 Indians
1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1813 First concerto of Royal Philharmonic
1815 In Charlottetown PEI, Peter Byers, a black, sentenced to death for stealing five pounds; 2 weeks earlier his brother Sancho sentenced to hang for stealing a pound of butter and a loaf of bread
1838 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
1854 US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
1855 A train crosses first US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1855 A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge -- at Niagara Falls, NY.
1855 The Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; the world's first suspension bridge built to carry trains
1861 St Augustine FL surrenders to Union armies
1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown &Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress &Monitor
1865 Battle of Kingston NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
1887 Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
1887 The telescopic fishing rod, made of steel tubes inside one another, was patented by Everett Horton.
1894 A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York.
