1085 Castile's Alfonso VI takes Toledo, the Arab center of science falls into Christian hands
1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/León occupy Toledo on Moren
1085 Pope Gregory VII dies at Salerno; Henry IV extends the "Peace of God" over the entire Holy Roman Empire
1241 First attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
1660 English King Charles II lands in Dover
1661 King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Bragança
1720 "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent
1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
1793 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is first US Roman Catholic priest ordained
1810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day)
1812 Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela
1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ
1862 Battle of Winchester VA
1864 Battle of New Hope Church GA
1868 Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins vs Surrey Gentlemen
1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec
1878 Gilbert &Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London
1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
1898 First US troop transport to Manila leaves San Fransisco
