0537 Goths lay siege to Rome
0843 Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople
1302 Romeo &Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1502 Tebriz shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
1563 League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II
1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising
1665 New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1702 The first English daily newspaper "Daily Courant", publishes
1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
1791 Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the first person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office.
1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
1795 Battle at Kurdla India Mahratten beat Mogols
1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1810 Napoleon is married by proxy at Vienna to the Austrian archduchess Maria Luisa, 18, in a match arranged by Austrian foreign minister Metternich The "little corporal" hopes to father an heir
1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1823 The first normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord VT
1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1835 George Kingsmill sets up first formal police force in Canada; High Constable of Toronto.
1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
1845 Florida became the 27th state of the United States of America.
