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| 1419 French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War |
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| 1493 France cedes Roussillon & Cerd gne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona | ||
| 1544 Francis II de Valois-Angoulˆme, king of France (1559-60) was born | ||
| 1668 King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain | ||
| 1714 Richard Steele publishes "Crisis," defending Hanoverian success | ||
| 1736 James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine) was born | ||
| 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling | ||
| 1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) | ||
| 1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death | ||
| 1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy | ||
| 1806 Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope | James Watt (1736-1819) | |
| 1808 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law | Engineer | |
| 1809 Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum) was born | by Carl Frederik von Breda | |
| 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland | ||
| 1839 Aden conquered by British East India Company | ||
| 1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim) |
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| 1851 Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer was born | ||
| 1853 Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo | ||
| 1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede | ||
| 1863 General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland | ||
| 1885 Battle at Abu Klea Sudan: 800-1000 killed | ||
| 1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms | ||
| 1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England | ||
| 1910 Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty | ||
| 1910 National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress | ||
| 1912 Leonid V Kantorovich, St Petersburg Russia, economist (Nobel) was born | ||
| 1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude | ||
| 1917 Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die | ||
| 1920 Alexandre Millerand forms French govt | ||
| 1921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union | ||
| 1927 British govt decides to send troops to China | ||
| 1941 British offensive in Eritrea | ||
| 1941 British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan | ||
| 1942 Japanese forces invade Burma | ||
| 1942 Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers | ||
| 1947 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392 | ||
| 1960 Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact | ||
| 1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister | ||
| 1974 Belgium govt of Leburton falls | ||
| 1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages | ||
| 1982 Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids & teacher | ||
| 1983 Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia | ||
| 1986 Spain recognizes Israel | ||
