1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia and Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews
1504 France and Spain signs ceasefire
1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
1547 Henry II succeeds François I as king of France
1644 Pope Urbanus VIII and duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
1667 France/England sign anti-Dutch military accord
1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1745 Jews are expelled from Prague
1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women as he helped construct the US Constitution. He didn't.
1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont", premieres in Weimar
1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France
1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 Québec and Montréal incorporated
1837 Death of English landscape painter John Constable.
1841 First performance of Robert Schumann's first Symphony in B
1849 Colonel John W Geary arrives as first postmaster of San Francisco
1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1854 Treaty of Kanagawa Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to foreign trade
1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on the Mississippi River
1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House)
