1349 Three thousand Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany

1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British

1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus

1556 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake as a heretic.

1610 King James I addresses English House of Commons

1666 Intendant Jean Talon starts census of New France; 3,000 persons counted in the first Canadian census

1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London

1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe

1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament

1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans LA

1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans

1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State

1791 Bangalore in India is seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War

1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes first commissioned officer in USN

1804 After four years of debate and planning, French leader Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework known as the "Napoleonic Code."

1843 Preacher William Miller of Massachusetts predicts the world will end today, he was wrong

1844 Origin of Bahá'í Era-Bahá'í calendar starts here (Bahá 1, 1)

1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California

1857 Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die

1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh

1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden

1863 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon

1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana

1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman

1866 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes

1871 Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa

1871 Otto von Bismarck elevated Fürst

1874 US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House

1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns

1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law

1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia; it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years

1898 Explosion in mine at Dudley Colliery, Stockton, near Newcastle, NSW, kills 15 men.

1899 British & French accord about West-Africa

1907 US invades Honduras

1911 H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught 1850-1942 appointed the Canadian Governor General

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