0241 -BC- Battle of Aegusa Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships

0418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire

1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal

1535 Bishop Tomás de Berlanga discovers Galápagos Islands

1578 Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion

1624 England declares war on Spain

1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later

1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier

1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania

1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples

1791 John Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver

1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy

1792 John Stone patented the pile driver on this day.

1793 Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe and his wife Elizabeth dine on boiled black squirrel, porcupine, roasted passenger pigeon, raccoon, fish, beef and veal

1813 Six companies of the 104th Regiment of Foot, plus 4th New Brunswick Regiment, start 52-day march overland to the St. Lawrence in winter; travel on snowshoes, pulling supplies on toboggans, lose only one man, arriving in Kingston April 12

1847 The first money minted in Hawaii

1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US President to do so

1862 Great Britain &France recognizes independence of Zanzibar

1862 US issues paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 &$1000)

1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies

1864 Red River campaign Louisiana

1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina

1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its first student

1876 The first telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)

1880 Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven women officers of English ‘General’ William Booth’s army landed in New York on this day to officially put the Salvation Army to work in the United States.

1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare &religious activity

1888 Heavyweight Boxing champion John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds

1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony

1893 New Mexico State University cancels its first graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed &killed the night before

1896 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"

1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins first modern marathon in 3 18

1900 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri

1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine

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