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| 1539 Emperor Karel & King Fran‡ois I sign anti-English treaty | ||
| 1539 Emperor 1587, English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentenceKarel & King Fran‡ois I sign anti-English treaty | ||
| 1662 Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates | ||
| 1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion | ||
| 1709 Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez | ||
| 1717 Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France | ||
| 1720 Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty | ||
| 1732 Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions | ||
| 1742 Sardinia & Austria sign alliance | ||
| 1788 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet | ||
| 1789 Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long | ||
| 1790 Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC) | ||
| 1793 France declares war on England & Netherlands | ||
| 1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen | ||
| 1809 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system | ||
| 1810 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila) | ||
| 1810 Seville, Spain surrenders to French | ||
| 1814 Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication | ||
| 1814 Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200 | ||
| 1861 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands | ||
| 1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein | ||
| 1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) | ||
| 1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins | ||
| 1893 Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin | ||
| 1893 Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio | ||
| 1898 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co | ||
| 1902 China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet | ||
| 1905 Hungarian premier Tisza resigns | ||
| 1909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens | ||
| 1910 1st British labour exchange opens | ||
| 1910 Dragoumis govt forms in Greece | ||
| 1914 Tanganyika Railway opens | ||
| 1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war | ||
| 1918 Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14) | ||
| 1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted | ||
| 1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens | ||
| 1924 New British MacDonald govt recognizes USSR | ||
| 1924 Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain | ||
| 1933 Colonial govt arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname | ||
| 1933 Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions | ||
| 1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland | ||
| 1942 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms | ||
| 1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth) | ||
| 1944 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy | ||
| 1944 US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur | ||
| 1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie | ||
| 1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president | ||
| 1946 Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN | ||
| 1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian govt of christian-dems & communists | ||
| 1947 Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad | ||
| 1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established | ||
| 1948 Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates | ||
| 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed | ||
| 1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes | ||
| 1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland | ||
| 1951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated | ||
| 1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion | ||
| 1951 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea | ||
| 1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia | ||
| 1953 Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835 | ||
| 1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire | ||
| 1957 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline | ||
| 1958 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic | ||
| 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women | ||
| 1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender | ||
| 1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive | ||
| 1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam | ||