0978 England's King Edward is assassinated at Corfe Castle in Dorset at age 15 in a conspiracy engineered by his stepmother Elfthryth, who wants the crown for her son of 10
1167 Battle of El-Babein, Egypt Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians
1190 Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England
1229 German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem
1438 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
1509 Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands
1532 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
1541 Hernan de Soto observes first recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)
1543 de Soto observes first recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)
1582 Prince Willem of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp
1583 Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty
1662 The first buses, eight-seater vehicles known as "carrosses a cinq solz", run in Paris.
1673 Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1745 Death of Sir Robert Walpole, British Whig statesman and prime minister for a record 21 years
1754 Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
1766 After four months of organized American protests, the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America
1773 Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer", premieres in London
1793 2nd Battle at Neerwinden Austria army beats France
1807 British forces occupy Alexandria but are able to hold it for only 6 months before the Turks force their evacuation
1810 "Converse", first US opera, premieres in New York
1813 David Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
1818 Congress approves first pensions for government service
1834 First railroad tunnel in US completed, in Pennsylvania (275 meter long)
1834 In Dorset, England, six labourers, dubbed the Tolpuddle Martyrs, are sentenced to seven years banishment to Australian penal colony for forming a trade union
1834 In England, six English agricultural laborers are sentenced to seven years of banishment to Australia’s New South Wales penal colony for their trade union activities
