1525 Battle at Zabern duke of Lutherans beats rebels

1527 Pánfilo de Narvaéz departs to explore Florida

1536 Anne Boleyn's 4 "lovers" executed

1544 Scottish Earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII

1579 Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian

1620 The first merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)

1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, first to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface

1631 Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg

1648 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria

1672 Frontenac becomes Governor of New France (Canada)

1673 Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi

1678 King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty

1712 Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"

1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions

1733 England passes the Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported by the colonies from countries that were not British possessions.

1742 Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians

1744 French army takes Austrian Netherlands

1750 Tax revolt in Gorinchem

1756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)

1756 The French and Indian War starts today when England declares war on France

1757 War speculators raise the prices of bread and meat by 1000%; 4 oz. of bread the daily ration in Quebec.

1775 In Philadelphia Pennsylvania, US Continental Congress bans trade with Canada. (I wonder what we did?)

1787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes

1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street

1792 The New York Stock Exchange formed today by 24 merchants at 70 Wall Street

1793 In Alberta, Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sights the Rockies.

1794 Hard frost in southern New England

1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine

1804 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of the Louisiana Purchase

1809 Papal States annexed by France

1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day)

1814 Norwegian constitution passed by constituent assembly at Eidsvoll

1845 Rubber band patents

1846 Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax

1848 Premier Earl Schimmelpenninck resigns

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