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1139 Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant | |
| 1327 King Edward III accedes to British throne | ||
| 1348 Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000 | ||
| 1494 Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples |
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| 1533 England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date) | ||
| 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary | ||
| 1565 Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army | ||
| 1579 Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic | ||
| Sir Thomas Wyatt | 1708 Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter was born | |
| 1721 Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy | ||
| 1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) | The marriage of Eros and Psyche. Painting by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni 1708-87 |
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| 1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by | ||
| 1799 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont | ||
| 1802 Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic | ||
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1844 Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative | |
| 1856 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians | ||
| 1858 Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia | ||
| 1865 CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia | ||
| 1875 Anti-slavery society forms (NY) | ||
| 1890 National Afro-American League forms in Chicago | ||
| 1904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania | ||
| 1905 Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa | ||
| 1916 Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary | ||
| 1918 Russia declared a republic of Soviets | ||
| 1920 Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35 | ||
| Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne (1919) Amedeo Modigliani | 1939 Earthquake hits Chill n Chile, 10,000 killed | |
Oil on canvas, 51¼ x 32" |
1940 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland | |
Collection Mr. And Mrs. Sydney F. Brody, Los Angeles |
1942 Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus | |
| 1945 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths | ||
| 1945 West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma | ||
| 1947 Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48 | ||
| 1949 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins | ||
| 1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea | ||
| 1955 Russia ends state of war with Germany | ||
| 1955 US & Panama sign canal treaty | ||
| 1957 FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR | ||
| 1959 Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council | ||
| 1964 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched | ||
| 1971 Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada | ||
| 1980 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran | ||
| 1981 Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death | ||
| 1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life | ||
| 1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia | ||
| 1986 General Tito Okello's govt flees Kampala Uganda | ||
| 1990 Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67 | ||
| 1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die | ||
| 1994 Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55 | ||
| 1998 Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement | ||
