1382 Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army

1430 Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany

1494 Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica on his 2nd voyage to the New World

1640 English Short Parliament unites

1646 King Charles I surrenders at Scotland

1665 Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow

1726 Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opéra of Paris France

1749 Pope Benedict XIV proclaims 1750 a Year" [?]

1762 Russia & Prussia sign peace treaty

1764 Smolny-institution forms in St Petersburg for noble girls

1780 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms

1797 Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi

1809 Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland

1809 Mary Kies is first woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)

1809 Mary Kies of South Killingly, CT was the first woman to be issued a U.S. patent, she was granted a patent for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.

1814 British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego NY

1816 American Bible Society organized

1842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)

1847 The American Medical Association was organized in Philadelphia, PA.

1854 English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast

1855 NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration

1861 Alexandria VA - CS troops abandon city

1862 French army intervenes in Puebla México Cinco de Mayo

1862 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg VA

1863 Battle of Tupelo MS

1863 Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round

1864 Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge

1864 Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke

1864 Battle of Wilderness VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)

1867 Battle of Pueblo; Méxicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)

1874 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law

1881 Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine

1891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor

1891 New York City was the site of the dedication of a building called the Music Hall. The structure is not called the Music Hall anymore, it is called Carnegie Hall, named in honor of Andrew Carnegie.

1893 Panic of 1893 Great crash on New York Stock Exchange

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