1379 End of Gelderse war victory

1545 German Parliament opens in Worms

1550 France &England sign Peace of Boulogne

1603 After forty-four years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies and King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne, uniting England, Scotland, and Ireland under a single British monarch.

1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England

1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia Sweden beatS Roman Catholic emperor Ferdinand III

1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island

1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts

1734 Netherlands' William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover

1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers

1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London

1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia

1848 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam

1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston KS

1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York

1863 Bushrangers Charles Robardi and Auguste Rivet stand trial at Goulburn, NSW, for murdering mail carrier Daniel Crotty. (

1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms

1877 University boat race between Oxford &Cambridge ends in a dead heat

1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost

1878 HMS Eurydice, a training ship, sank in a freak squall off Ventnor, Isle of Wight with the loss of 330 lives. Only 2 were saved.

1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut

1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB

1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet died

1883 The first telephone call between New York &Chicago

1887 Oscar Straus appointed first Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)

1894 37 miners killed at Franklin WA

1898 The first recoreded sale of an automobile

1905 Jules Verne the father of science fiction was died

1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - how things will change!

1910 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March

1913 Netherlands soccer team's first victory over England

1920 US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)

1923 In China a 7.3 earthquake resulted in 5,000 dead. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

1924 Greece becomes a republic

1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens first escalator in Netherlands

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