1328 Treaty of Edinburgh by which England acknowledged the independence of Scotland under Robert 1 was concluded at Edinburgh

1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines

1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon

1526 French king François I freed from Spain

1537 French troops invade Flanders

1577 Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 gets commission from the Cathay Company to hunt for gold in the Arctic; he will return with tons of worthless pyrites, which are dumped as street ballast in London, giving rise to the legend that the streets of London were paved with gold

1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam

1613 Cupids, Newfoundland the wife of Nicholas Guy gives birth to a son; likely the first English child born in Newfoundland

1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered

1672 England declares war on Netherlands

1722 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente

1753 First official St Patrick's Day

1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief

1756 St Patrick's Day first celebrated in NYC at Crown and Thistle Tavern

1757 Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java

1762 First St Patrick's Day parade in NYC

1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act

1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War

1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die

1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell", premieres

1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12²-mile area in Upper Sandusky

1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour

1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London

1847 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Macbeth" is produced (Florence)

1858 Toronto Ontario St. Patricks Day riot breaks out during parade; one man fatally stabbed

1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed

1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities)

1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued

1870 Massachusetts legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary

1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux Indian camps

1877 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' first 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs England

1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes first glider flight, Otay CA

1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed

1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574

1894 US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US

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