1323 Treaty of Paris

1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V

1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Islands for West Africa

1475 Michelangelo Renaissance artist Sistine Chapel ceiling, was born

1521 Magellan discovers Guam

1521 Magellan discovers the Mariana Islands.

1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht

1590 Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"

1619 Cyrano De Bergerac French soldier, author was born

1628 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict

1646 Joseph Jenkes, Massachusetts, receives first colonial machine patent

1664 King Louis XIV &Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant

1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing

1714 Peace of Rastatt French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg

1728 Spain &England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo

1775 The first Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston

1799 Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine

1808 The first college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard

1810 Illinois passes state vaccination legislation in US

1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany

1853 The Verdi opera La Traviata opens in Venice, Italy.

1857 Dred Scott Decision Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens

1857 The US Supreme Court rules that slave Dred Scott cannot sue for his freedom in federal court.

1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army

1862 Battle of Pea Ridge AR (Elkhorn Tavern)

1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida

1865 President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball

1882 Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king

1886 The first US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington MA

1886 US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, first appears, New York NY

1888 Author Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) dies.

1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2

1895 J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 minutes) England vs Australia

1896 In Detroit MI, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage" for the first time

1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann and still going strong 100 years later

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