1506 Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir

1515 George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles

1517 Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht

1547 Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel

1568 English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary

1571 Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines

1585 Spain confisquates English ships

1588 Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England

1608 Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague

1635 France declares war on Spain

1643 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim French army destroys Spanish army

1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut &New Harbor form United Colonies of New England

1652 Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen

1662 Uniformity Act of England goes into effect

1749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley

1780 About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained

1792 Russian army enters Poland

1793 Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)

1796 Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds

1802 The Legion of Honor (Légion d'Honneur) created by Bonaparte gives him a tool comparable to the orders of knighthood so that he may avoid criticism of his government by keeping his courtiers busy with matters of etiquette and protocol

1848 México gives Texas to US, ending the war

1853 Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar

1856 Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery

1857 William Francis Channing &Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm

1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West

1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA (Bermuda Hundred)

1864 Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania

1864 Skirmish at Cassville GA

1878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield

1882 Commodore Shufeldt (USS Swatara) lands in Korea to negotiate first treaty between Korea and Western power

1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres

1885 German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon &Togoland

1885 The first mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn MA)

1891 Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered

1892 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer

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