1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
1457 Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book
1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris France
1621 Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherlands
1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
1622 In the first major massacre of European colonists by Native Americans, Algonquian Indians led by Opechancanough, chief of the Pamunkey, slaughter 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia--nearly a third of the settlement’s total population
1630 First colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
1692 Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
1765 Stamp Act passed first direct British tax on colonists
1774 A collection of English nursery rhymes is published and includes Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.
1775 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament
1778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state we really should have claimed it!
1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the first US Secretary of State
1794 Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
1822 Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna
1822 New York Horticultural Society founded
1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1859 The first political party dedicated to the working class in Australia, the Political Labour League of Victoria, is founded in Melbourne.
1861 The first US nursing school chartered
1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
