1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht and Woudrichem, Netherlands

1590 Battle at Ivry French King Henri IV beats Catholic League

1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)

1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno

1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as king and queen

1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne

1743 First American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)

1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin

1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII

1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812

1840 José Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey", premieres in Madrid

1843 Boston conducts its first town meeting (Faneuil Hall)

1843 James Douglas lands at Clover Point on Vancouver Island with 15 men to build new Hudson's Bay Company Fort Camosun (later Victoria); moving HBC trade headquarters from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State)

1862 Battle of New Bern NC General Burnside conquers New Bern

1863 RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge

1864 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle", premieres in Paris France

1864 Samuel Baker discovers another source of the Nile in East Africa and names it Lake Albert Nyanza.

1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana

1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible

1879 Revolutionary physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

1885 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado", premieres in London

1888 2nd largest snowfall in New York NY history (21")

1891 The submarine Monarch lays telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.

1896 Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)

1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics

1900 US currency goes on gold standard

1906 Calgary City Rugby Football Club forms

1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms

1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt

1913 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation

1914 Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty

1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile

1915 In World War I, the German cruiser Dresden is sunk by the Royal Navy in the Pacific

1916 Battle of Verdun German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun

1917 China severs diplomatic relations with Germany in World War I.

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