1092 Lincoln Cathedral consecrated

1336 Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux

1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England

1460 Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings

1502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th &final trip to New World

1573 Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king

1588 Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris France

1671 Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels

1689 English King Willem III declares war on France

1738 England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea &West-Indies

1753 King Louis XV disbands French parliament

1754 First newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or die"

1766 John Byron back in England after trip around the world

1785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles

1788 English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade

1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends México back to Rio Grande

1862 Battle of Farmington MS

1862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport RI

1864 Battle of Cloyd's Mount &Swift Creek VA (Drewery's Bluff, Fort Darling)

1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark

1864 Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church VA

1868 Anton Bruckner's first Symphony in C, premieres

1874 Victoria Embankment, in London opens

1882 Telegraph Hill RR Company organized

1889 15th Kentucky Derby Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2 34½

1896 First horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)

1899 Lawn mower patented

1901 Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne

1901 Tasmanians drive Scheepers Commandos out of Craddock District in South Africa

1908 Dirk Fock becomes Governor of Suriname

1911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland

1913 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote

1914 President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day

1915 German &French fight the Battle of Artois

1916 British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey

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