0685 Battle at Nechtansmere Picten beat Northumbrians

0996 Otto the Great's Saxon grandson, now 16, is crowned Otto III 2005at Rome

0996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor

1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency

1216 French crown prince Louis enters England

1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English

1471 King Edwards IV enters London

1502 Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena

1526 Sermon of Bathe, Aargau TC evangelical theology

1542 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto dies while searching for gold along the Mississippi River

1553 English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley

1602 Martha's Vineyard first sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)

1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland

1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname

1793 Curaçao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange

1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins

1809 Battle at Aspern-Essling Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon

1840 New Zealand became a British colony

1846 The first steamship arrives in Hawaii

1850 Washington Navy Yard begins work on first castings for the Dahlgren guns

1856 Lawrence KS captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces

1861 North Carolina is 10th state to secede from Union

1861 Richmond VA is designated Confederate Capital

1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins

1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia

1871 French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die

1879 Battle of Iquiquw

1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed

1891 Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds

1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1 meter) refractor used for first time

1898 US Assay Office in Seattle WA authorized

1900 Russia annexes Manchuria

1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris France

1906 Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars

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