1096 Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm

1291 Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre

1302 Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten)

1385 Peace of Doornik Gent & Louis van Thoughts

1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England, is beheaded after being convicted for adultery

1588 The Spanish Armada sets sail for England; it is defeated by England the following August

1596 Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya

1619 Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison

1631 English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right

1631 John Winthrop is elected first governor of Massachusetts

1642 Montréal Canada founded

1642 The Canadian City of Montreal is founded

1643 Delegates from four New England colonies meet in Boston to form a confederation

1652 Rhode Island enacts first law declaring slavery illegal

1703 Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne

1756 England declares war on France

1794 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)

1803 Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland

1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed emperor by the French Senate

1843 United Free Church of Scotland forms

1846 US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros

1851 Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked

1852 Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school

1860 Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president

1861 Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South

1863 Siege of Vicksburg MS

1864 Battle of Yellow Bayou LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)

1866 French Government of De Putte resigns

1885 Australians depart Suakin in the Sudan for Sydney

1896 US Supreme court affirms "separate but equal" policy (Plessy v Ferguson)

1897 Irish Music Festival first held (Dublin)

1899 World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in first Hague Peace Conference

1900 Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga

1904 American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco

1906 The Federated Boys' Clubs, later to become the Boys' Clubs of America, are organized

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