0526 Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria

1293 Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed

1303 Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War

1310 Shoes were made for both right & left feet (and we thank you)

1347 Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal

1495 French King Charles VIII leaves Naples

1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India

1501 Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands

1506 Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain

1521 Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball

1524 Duke of Albany leaves Scotland

1570 Egidius Coppens publishes Abraham Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum"

1571 Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League

1591 Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius

1631 German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg

1639 Dorchester MA, forms first school funded by local taxes

1639 Dorchester, Massachusetts funds the first school in the US from local taxes

1690 England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II

1704 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York

1734 The first Jockey Club forms in South Carolina

1774 Britain gives Québec, Labrador & territory north of the Ohio

1775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence of Britain

1784 England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)

1845 The first legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii

1861 Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle

1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War

1861 North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union

1862 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of the West

1864 Battle at Ware Bottom Church VA, 1,400 killed or injured

1864 Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured person

1867 British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage

1867 Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria

1868 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant

1870 Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment

1874 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz

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