1167 Lombard League defeat Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano
1176 Battle at Legnano Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa
1415 Council of Konstanz
1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
1453 French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated
1506 Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont
1576 Spanish army under Mondragón conquerors Zierik sea
1630 Governor John Winthrop begins "History of New England"
1652 English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Tromp
1660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
1692 Battle at La Hogue English & Dutch fleet beat France
1692 Royal Hospital Founders Day first celebrated
1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
1727 Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia
1753 Joseph Haydns "Krumme Teufel" premieres
1765 Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1787 "Virginia Plan" proposed
1790 Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution
1848 Battle at Curtazone Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state
1848 Wisconsin becomes the 30th state to join the US
1849 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, & of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"
1849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln
1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
1864 Méxican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
