1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV

1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia and Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews

1504 France and Spain signs ceasefire

1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus

1547 Henry II succeeds François I as king of France

1644 Pope Urbanus VIII and duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara

1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru

1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown

1667 France/England sign anti-Dutch military accord

1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey

1745 Jews are expelled from Prague

1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women as he helped construct the US Constitution. He didn't.

1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont", premieres in Weimar

1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names

1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France

1841 First performance of Robert Schumann's first Symphony in B

1849 Colonel John W Geary arrives as first postmaster of San Francisco

1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population 3,638,808 (15.7%))

1854 Treaty of Kanagawa Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to foreign trade

1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans

1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on the Mississippi River

1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House)

1865 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg

1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China

1870 Thomas P Mundy became first black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)

1877 British high director/Governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown

1878 Jack Johnson is first black to hold a heavyweight boxing title

1880 The First town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash IN)

1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system

1885 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate

1889 Alexander Gustave Eiffel raised the French flag at the top of his tower in Paris.

1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)

1900 Brigadier-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands

1900 The first car advertisement to run in a national magazine appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)

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