1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses

1496 English King Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore

1528 Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague

1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes

1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index

1623 American temperance law enacted, Virginia

1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm

1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz

1743 US religious journal, The Christian History, first published, Boston

1746 Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen

1750 The first American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York NY

1760 Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg

1764 In Quebec, Governor James Murray requires inhabitants of Quebec to declare their French money; before May 1

1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Territory from French

1770 The Boston Massacre takes place when British soldiers kill five colonists who had been taunting them.

1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno

1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution

1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France

1807 First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B

1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US

1849 Zachary Taylor is sworn in as US president.

1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire

1856 Georgia becomes first state to regulate railroads

1862 Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina FL

1864 The first track meet between Oxford & Cambridge

1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould

1868 US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson

1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains

1877 Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President

1894 Seattle authorizes first municipal employment office in US

1896 Italian Governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa

1897 American Negro Academy forms

1900 American Hall of Fame is founded

1908 First ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica

1910 Rogers Pass BC, an avalanche kills sixty-two railroad workers in the pass

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