0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited

0918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht

1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus

1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes

1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten

1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen

1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder

1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sá founds Rio de Janeiro

1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower

1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV

1634 Battle at Smolensk; Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians

1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the first incorporated American city

1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, &Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA)

1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)

1755 In Quebec city Quebec Jean-Armand Dieskau is appointed commander of the French regular troops in Canada

1780 Pennsylvania becomes first US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)

1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation

1781 The US Continental Congress adopts its Articles of Confederation

1784 E Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain

1790 A US census to establish the population is authorized

1790 Congress authorizes the first US Census survey.

1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed

1803 Ohio becomes 17th state

1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed &Non-Intercourse Act signed

1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500

1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel

1815 Disbanding of Lower Canada militia after War of 1812

1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law

1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas

1845 The Republic of Texas is annexed to the US.

1847 Michigan becomes first English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)

1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again

1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)

1864 Rebecca Lee (US) becomes first black woman to receive a medical degree

1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana

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