1349 Three thousand Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British
1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
1556 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake as a heretic.
1610 King James I addresses English House of Commons
1666 Intendant Jean Talon starts census of New France; 3,000 persons counted in the first Canadian census
1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans LA
1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
1791 Bangalore in India is seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War
1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes first commissioned officer in USN
1804 After four years of debate and planning, French leader Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework known as the "Napoleonic Code."
1821 Party leaves Sydney to establish a penal settlement at Port Macquarie, NSW.
1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1829 Earthquake in Spain kills 6,000.
1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
1843 Preacher William Miller of Massachusetts predicts the world will end today, he was wrong
1844 Origin of Bahá'í Era-Bahá'í calendar starts here (Bahá 1, 1)
1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1857 Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
