1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen

1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League

1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam wool house in churchyard aborted

1564 Battle on Gotland Lübeck & Denmark beat Sweden

1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night

1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony

1659 Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague

1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah

1678 Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes

1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius

1727 France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris

1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk

1790 US copyright law enacted

1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens

1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard the Advance

1861 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line

1861 Mint at New Orleans closes

1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks); North defeats South

1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky

1868 First Memorial Day parade held in Ironton OH

1870 Congress passes first Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)

1870 E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement

1878 German battleship Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed

1878 US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation

1879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition

1879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors

1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar

1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"

1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania

1889 The Johnstown Flood kills 2,000 to 5,000 Pennsylvanians in a city of 30,000

1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins

1899 Conference of Bloemfontein fails

1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg

1900 Piet de Law captures Lieutenant-Colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry

1900 Sailors and Marines from USS Newark and USS Oregon arrive at Peking, China with other Sailors and Marines from Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan to protect U.S. and foreign diplomatic legations from the Boxers

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