1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge

1455 Jews flee Spain

1494 Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it "St Iago"

1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen (18th ecumenical council) in Rome

1515 Persian Gulf Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz

1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war

1621 Francis Bacon accused of bribery

1624 Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama

1629 French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain

1640 English Upper house accept Act of Attainder

1654 Bridge at Rowley MA begins charging tolls for animals

1660 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg &Austria sign Peace of Oliva

1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen

1662 Royal charter granted Connecticut

1678 French conquering fleet at Curaçao, 1200 die

1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"

1722 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris France

1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht

1765 Thr first US medical college opens in Philadelphia

1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city

1802 Washington, D C is incorporated as a city

1808 Goya's "Executions of the 3rd of May"

1810 Lord Byron swam the Hellespont* this day. It is a 40 mi. (64 km) long, 1-5 mi. (1.6-8 km) wide strait between European and Asian Turkey

1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont

1811 Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk purchases 300,000 sq km of Manitoba from the Hudson's Bay Company for a Red River colony named to be named Assiniboia.

1815 Battle at Tolentino Austria beats king Joachim of Naples

1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China

1845 The first black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts)

1851 Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire; 30 die

1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens

1861 General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan

1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers &another 18,000 seamen

1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws

1863 Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights)

1863 Battle of Salem Church VA

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