1328 Treaty of Edinburgh by which England acknowledged the independence of Scotland under Robert 1 was concluded at Edinburgh
1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon
1526 French king François I freed from Spain
1537 French troops invade Flanders
1577 Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 gets commission from the Cathay Company to hunt for gold in the Arctic; he will return with tons of worthless pyrites, which are dumped as street ballast in London, giving rise to the legend that the streets of London were paved with gold
1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
1613 Cupids, Newfoundland the wife of Nicholas Guy gives birth to a son; likely the first English child born in Newfoundland
1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
1672 England declares war on Netherlands
1722 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
1753 First official St Patrick's Day
1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 St Patrick's Day first celebrated in NYC at Crown and Thistle Tavern
1757 Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
1762 First St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell", premieres
1824 England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1829 Ottawa Ontario 200 Irish canal navvies riot on St. Patricks Day; one killed and many wounded
1833 Phoenix Society forms (New York)
1836 Texas abolishes slavery
1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12²-mile area in Upper Sandusky
