1303 Flemings conquers Middelburg

1471 Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha

1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides non-Christian world between Spain &Portugal

1494 Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica

1540 Venice &Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople

1572 Veere sides with Geuzen

1626 Dutch exlorer Peter Minuit lands on what is now Manhattan Island

1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth &buttons

1626 Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands

1634 Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies

1652 Battle at Etampes French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels

1715 French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella (Paris France)

1728 Georg F Händels opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto" premieres in London

1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel

1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England

1780 American Academy of Arts &Science founded

1780 Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins first Epsom Derby

1783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus

1805 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx NY

1814 Bourbon reign restored in France

1839 The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio

1843 Great-Britain annexes Natal

1846 US state of Michigan ends death penalty

1847 New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration

1851 The first major San Fransisco fire

1858 War of the Reform (México); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz

1859 The Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Western Canada and La Banque Nationale incorporated.

1861 At Gretna LA, one of first guns of Rebel navy is cast

1862 Battle at Williamsburg VA

1862 Yorktown VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains

1863 Battle of Chancellorsville ends-Beaten Union army withdraws

1864 General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock

1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan &begins his duel with Robert E Lee

1865 Battle of Citronville AL; Richard Taylor surrenders

1865 Battle of Mobile AL

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