0537 Goths lay siege to Rome

0843 Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople

1302 Romeo &Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare

1502 Tebriz shah Ismail I of Persia crowned

1563 League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II

1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel

1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France

1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille

1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising

1665 New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights

1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000

1702 The first English daily newspaper "Daily Courant", publishes

1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)

1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC

1791 Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the first person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office.

1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens

1795 Battle at Kurdla India Mahratten beat Mogols

1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise

1810 Napoleon is married by proxy at Vienna to the Austrian archduchess Maria Luisa, 18, in a match arranged by Austrian foreign minister Metternich The "little corporal" hopes to father an heir

1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews

1845 Florida became the 27th state of the United States of America.

1845 The U.S. Congress passed legislation overriding a President’s veto. It was the first time Congress had done so.

1850 Richard Blanshard arrives at Fort Victoria; reads proclamation establishing the new colony of Vancouver Island, with himself as the first Governor.

1850 Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school)

1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto", premieres in Venice

1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution

1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia

1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief &makes him head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief

1863 Free city delivery of mail was authorized by the U.S. Postal Service.

1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee

1865 Assembly of Canada votes 91-33 to proceed with Confederation.

1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC

1867 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos", premieres in Paris France

1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)

1879 Guelph Ontarioincorporated as a city; settlement founded by John Galt.

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