1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1153 Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III

1490 First dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published

1568 Treaty of Longjumeau French huguenots go on strike

1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht

1593 English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander

1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont

1657 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk

1670 François Dollier de Casson 1636-1701 claims Lake Erie territory for France

1708 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth

1743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London

1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"

1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine

1794 Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland

1801 Murder attempt on Czar Paul I

1806 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast

1808 Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain

1815 USS Hornet captures HMS Penguin in battle lasting 22 minutes

1848 First organized band of settlers lands at Dunedin, New Zealand.

1849 Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)

1857 Elisha Otis' first elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)

1858 Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia)

1861 London's first tramcars, designed by Mr Train of New York, begins operating

1862 Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign

1864 Encounter at Camden AR

1865 British Parliament votes £50,000 for Canadian defense; after Union ship Kearsarge sinks Confederate ship Alabama, built in UK

1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC

1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto

1868 University of California founded (Oakland CA)

1880 Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)

1881 Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end first Boer war

1881 Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die

1882 SECNAV Hunt issues General Order No. 292 creating Office of Naval Intelligence.

1887 More than 80 miners die in gas explosion in colliery at Bulli, NSW.

1889 Edmonton Alberta's temperature reaches 22.2 C; warmest March day on record.

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