1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb

1278 Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining

1291 Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I

1427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland

1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for first voyage to New World

1503 Columbus discovers Cayman Islands

1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague

1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland

1534 Off Cape Bonavista Newfoundland Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sights Cape Bonavista after three week crossing from France; stopped ten days by ice; then skirts east coast of Newfoundland; his first voyage to Canada

1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary

1570 Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant

1618 Haeuik Claezoon Van Hillegom, captain of the Dutch ship Zeewolf, records that he has sighted the coast of what is later to be named Australia.

1624 Jacob Willekens & Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist

1652 John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton VA

1655 Jamaica captured by English

1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia Government begins

1752 Benjamin Franklins first tests the lightning rod

1774 Louis XVI ascends the throne of France

1774 Louis XVI ascends to throne of France

1775 2nd Continental Congress convened in Pennsylvania; issues paper currency for first time

1775 Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution

1775 Second Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander

1775 The second Continental Congress convened in Pennsylvania; issues paper currency for first time

1787 Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings

1796 French Government arrest 10 utopists

1796 Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge

1796 Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam

1797 The first Navy ship, the "United States" is launched

1797 The first U.S. Navy ship, the "United States" is launched

1816 English steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor

1853 Sir Hugh Allan's Genova the first steamer of the Allan Line to arrive at Quebec; starts 14-day Montreal-Liverpool mail run

1857 Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerutkazerne, Delhi

1861 Union troops march on state militia in St Louis MI

1862 Battle of Plum Run Bend TN (Plum Point Bend)

1864 Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia

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