1360 Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French

1429 French troops under Joan of Arc rescues Orléans

1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI

1521 Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther

1541 Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River

1541 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River in what will later be part of the southeastern United States

1624 Hung king Bethlen Gábor & emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna

1639 William Coddington founds Newport RI

1660 English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns

1721 Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII

1741 France & Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg

1784 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)

1792 British Captain George Vancouver sights, names Mount Rainier WA

1792 US establishes military draft

1794 US Post Office established

1840 Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process

1842 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die

1846 American General Zachary Taylor's forces win the first major battle of the Mexican War at Palo Alto, TX

1846 The first major battle of Méxican War fought at Palo Alto TX

1847 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire

1858 John Brown holds antislavery convention

1861 Richmond VA, is named the capital of the Confederacy

1862 Valley Campaign Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell VA

1863 Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia

1864 Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway Bridge VA (Drewry's Bluff)

1864 Atlanta Campaign Severe fighting near Dalton

1864 Battle of Antietam VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)

1866 Australian Rules Football is created and I still do not understand the game, sorry all you Aussie's

1871 English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute

1877 The first Westminster Dog Show held

1879 George Selden files for first patent for a gasoline-driven automobile

1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch

1884 Harry S Truman, later to become the 33rd president of the United States, is born near Lamar, MO

1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-meter jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, England

1886 Atlanta pharmacist (Jacob's Pharmacy) Dr John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola (contained cocaine)

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