1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
1791 Convicts Mary and William Bryant, their two children and seven other convicts escape from Port Jackson Australia in open boat to Timor but are recaptured there.
1794 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1795 Nootka Sound BC, the Spanish evacuate trading post at Friendly Cove to British.
1796 Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is first US-African church
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
1799 New York State abolished slavery
1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
1834 Senate censure President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of US
1845 Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US
1849 Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate
1854 During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia
1862 Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia
1866 The first ambulance goes into service
1868 Death of the Earl of Cardigan, British general who led the ill-conceived Charge of the Light Brigade against the Russians during the Crimean War.
1885 US Salvation Army officially organized
1902 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville TN (state record)
1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used
1910 The first seaplane, takes off from water at Martigues France (Henri Fabre)
1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
1918 Anti-conscription riots break out in Quebec City; four civilians killed in shooting match with soldiers over Easter weekend.
1920 Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
1920 Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia
1922 The first microfilm device introduced - where is the CIA?
