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Richard III
Sir
Francis Drake
Etching by Jodocus Hondius
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| 1189 King Henry II of England, the first of the Plantagenets, died and was succeeded by Richard I. | ||
| 1483 England's King Richard III crowned | ||
| 1491 Opening ceremony of Daitokuji's Shinju at subtemple | ||
| 1495 Battle at Fornovo] French king Charles VIII beats St League | ||
| 1535 Sir Thomas More, former Lord Chancellor of England, was executed for treason after refusing to recognize Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England. | |
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| 1553 King Edward VI of England died and was succeeded by Queen Mary I. | ||
| 1560 England/Scotland signs Treaty of Edinburgh | ||
| 1573 Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots | ||
| 1590 English admiral Francis Drake takess Portuguese Forts at Taag | ||
| 1609 Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion | ||
| 1641 Battle at La Marf‚e Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French govt army | Richard III |
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| 1652 Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns) | ||
| 1669 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River | ||
| 1673 French troops conquer Maastricht | ||
| 1678 Nicola Francesco Haym, composer was born | ||
| 1685 at the Battle of Sedgemoor, in Somerset, England, the troops of King James II defeated the mainly peasant supporters of the Duke of Monmouth. | ||
| 1687 Newton publishes "Principia" | ||
| 1699 Pirate Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston | ||
| 1770 Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish | ||
| 1777 British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans | ||
| 1782 British-French sea battle at Negapatam (South-Indies) | ||
| 1787 French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax | ||
| 1787 Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede |
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| 1796 Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55) was born | ||
| 1801 Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British | ||
| 1840 Christian Hebbel's "Judith," premieres in Berlin | ||
| 1848 Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo | ||
| 1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine | ||
| 1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia | ||
| 1873 Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich) was born | ||
| 1882 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine | ||
| 1885 French chemist Louis Pasteur successfully treated a patient with his anti-rabies vaccine. | ||
| 1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public | ||
| 1892 Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot was born | Sir
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| 1893 British King George V marries princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary) | ||
| 1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike | ||
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1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens | |
| 1917 T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey | ||
| 1919 The first airship to cross the Atlantic, the British R-34, arrived in New York. | ||
| 1922 Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy | ||
| 1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form | ||
| 1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England | ||
| 1928 Worlds largest hailstone 1« lbs (17') falls in Potter Nebraska | ||
| 1928 The first all-talking feature film, "The Lights of New York," was premiered in New York. | ||
| 1942 The diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam. | ||
| 1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed | ||
| 1944 A fire sparked by inept fire-eaters in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut, killed 167 people. |
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| 1945 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter | ||
| 1945 President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom | ||
| 1952 Last tram ride in London | ||
| 1957 Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney | ||
| 1957 Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri | ||
| 1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico | ||
| 1958 Alaska becomes 49th state | ||
| 1961 Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300 | ||
| 1962 Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria | ||
| 1963 South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested | ||
| 1966 Malawi became a republic within the Commonwealth with Dr. Hastings Banda as its first president. | ||
| 1967 Civil war erupted in Nigeria over Biafran independence. | ||
| 1968 Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words" | ||
| 1971 Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi | ||
| 1975 Argentine government falls | ||
| 1975 The Comoros Islands parliament declared unilateral independence from French rule. | ||
| 1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | ||
| 1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut | ||
| 1979 IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp | ||
| 1980 France performs nuclear test | ||
| 1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less | ||
| 1986 Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines | ||
| 1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India | ||
| 1987 USSR performs nuclear test | ||
| 1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico | ||
| 1988 The world's worst offshore accident occurred when the Piper Alpha oil platform exploded in the British sector of the North Sea, killing 167 people. | ||
| 1990 Bulgarian President Petar Mladenov resigned after charges that he called for tanks to crush an anti-government protest. | ||
| 1992 Nigeria's social democrats won control of both houses of a new civilian parliament in army-supervised elections. | ||
| 1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin pleaded for time and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat pleaded for money when they shared a platform in Paris to receive a peace prize from the United Nations. | ||
| 1994 President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. leader to visit the former Soviet Baltic republics. | ||
| 1995 A Milan judge ordered some of the top names in Italian fashion, including Giorgio Armani, Gianfranco Ferre and Krizia, to stand trial on corruption charges. | ||
| 1997 In Cambodia, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen ousted First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh and claimed control of the capital. | ||