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1527 Florence becomes a republic

1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor

1547 Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg

1568 Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England

1571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4 37 AM

1584 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal

1605 Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V

1606 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia

1648 Battle at Zólty Wody Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir

1747 Prince Willem V sworn in as Admiral-General of Netherlands

1763 Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London

1770 Marie Antoinette (age 14) marries the future King Louis VI of France (age 15)

1791 Near Moodus, Connecticut, the largest historical earthquake in Connecticut occurred

1792 Denmark abolishes slave trade

1795 Hedges Treaty Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state

1796 Lombardije Republic forms

1803 Britain and France renew war, the French complete their occupation of Hanover, and they threaten to invade England from Boulogne, where they begin to assemble an invasion fleet

1803 Peace of Amiens ends

1804 Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France

1811 Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera

1860 Republican convention (Chicago) selects Abraham Lincoln candidate

1861 Confederate Government offers war volunteers $10 premium

1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality

1862 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds first automobile

1863 Battle of Champion's Hill MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign

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