0641 A.D. Chinese Princess Wen Cheng goes to Tibet to marry the Tibetan ruler and the marriage becomes the basis for China's claim to sovereignty over the region

1496 Jews are expelled from Syria

1572 Luos Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal

1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower

1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies

1597 England routes troops to Amiens

1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony

1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia

1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint

1642 Abel Tasman is first European in New Zealand

1664 First naturalization act in American colonies

1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony

1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland

1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy

1755 First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine

1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago

1789 US Post Office established

1799 Austria declares war on France

1814 British troops under Wellington capture Bordeaux in France

1848 Second republic established in France

1849 The first gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California

1850 US $20 gold piece first issued

1857 A Great Western Railway train breaks an axle while crossing a swing bridge and plunges into the Desjardins Canal near Hamilton. 59 people are killed.

1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill; free land in West for colonists

1867 Last French troops leave Mexico

1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax

1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa

1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony

1884 Mississippi establishes first US state college for women

1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in northeast US (400 die)

1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated

1889 Ethiopia's Johannes IV is killed in the Battle of Metemma fighting the Mahdists

1889 Start of South Africa's first Test, vs England, Port Elizabeth

1896 The first movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)

1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein

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