1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)

1457 Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book

1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury

1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris France

1621 Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherlands

1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)

1622 In the first major massacre of European colonists by Native Americans, Algonquian Indians led by Opechancanough, chief of the Pamunkey, slaughter 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia--nearly a third of the settlement’s total population

1630 First colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)

1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony

1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas

1692 Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king

1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)

1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later

1765 Stamp Act passed first direct British tax on colonists

1774 A collection of English nursery rhymes is published and includes Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.

1775 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament

1778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state we really should have claimed it!

1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the first US Secretary of State

1794 Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries

1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)

1859 The first political party dedicated to the working class in Australia, the Political Labour League of Victoria, is founded in Melbourne.

1861 The first US nursing school chartered

1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation

1865 Raid at Wilson's Chickaswas AL to Macon GA

1871 William Holden of North Carolina is first governor removed from office by impeachment

1872 Illinois becomes first state to require sexual equality in employment

1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico

1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association is founded in New York NY

1878 In Victoria BC R. B. McMicking demonstrates Victoria's first 2 telephones

1882 Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories

1885 Canadian troops ordered mobilized because of the Northwest Rebellion

1888 English Football League established

1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their first movie to an invited audience

1897 Federal convention starts second meeting in Adelaide to begin drawing up a constitution for a Commonwealth of Australia.

1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought

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