1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquers Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1670 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London
1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
1700 Pacific Island of New Britain discovered
1713 French troops bomb Willemstad, Curacao
1801 Washington, D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
1670 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London
1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
1700 Pacific Island of New Britain discovered
1713 French troops bomb Willemstad, Curacao
1801 Washington, D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
Event of Interest
1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency
16th US President
Abraham Lincoln
1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw
1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1864 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1864 Near Andersonville, Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1869 John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress
1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1874 Baseball 1st played in England at Lord's Cricket Ground
Election of Interest
1877 US Electoral College declares Rutherford B. Hayes winner of the presidential election
19th US President
Rutherford B. Hayes
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1881 Battle at Amajuba: South African Boers vs British army under General Colley
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m) in San Francisco; match is a draw
1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency
16th US President
Abraham Lincoln
1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw
1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1864 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1864 Near Andersonville, Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1869 John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress
1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1874 Baseball 1st played in England at Lord's Cricket Ground
Election of Interest
1877 US Electoral College declares Rutherford B. Hayes winner of the presidential election
19th US President
Rutherford B. Hayes
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1881 Battle at Amajuba: South African Boers vs British army under General Colley
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m) in San Francisco; match is a draw
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837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1526 Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1531 Evangelical German towns form Schmalkaldische Union
1557 1st Russian Embassy arrives in London
1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
Event of Interest
1594 Henry IV crowned King of France
King
Henry IV of France
1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci
1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-admiral De Ruyter beats English
1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquers Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1670 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London
1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
1700 Pacific Island of New Britain discovered
1713 French troops bomb Willemstad, Curacao
1801 Washington, D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
1813 US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
Music Premiere
1814 Ludwig van Beethoven's 8th Symphony in F premieres
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Event of Interest
1816 Dutch regain Suriname from the French after the defeat of Napoleon
French Emperor
Napoléon Bonaparte
1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
1850 12th Grand National: Chris Green aboard Abd-El-Kader wins
1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
1856 18th Grand National: George Stevens aboard Freetrader wins
Event of Interest
1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency
16th US President
Abraham Lincoln
1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw
1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1864 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1864 Near Andersonville, Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1869 John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress
1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1874 Baseball 1st played in England at Lord's Cricket Ground
Election of Interest
1877 US Electoral College declares Rutherford B. Hayes winner of the presidential election
19th US President
Rutherford B. Hayes
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1881 Battle at Amajuba: South African Boers vs British army under General Colley
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m) in San Francisco; match is a draw
1900 Battle at Pietershoogte during the Boer War
1900 Boer General Cronjé surrenders to British in Pardenberg, South Africa
1900 In London, the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet, results in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern Labour Party in 1906
1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
1901 A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Government's insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers
1906 France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
Event of Interest
1907 Psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud meet for the first time in Vienna
Father of Psy
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Events 1 - 200 of 208
837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1526 Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1531 Evangelical German towns form Schmalkaldische Union
1557 1st Russian Embassy arrives in London
1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
Event of Interest
1594 Henry IV crowned King of France
King
Henry IV of France
1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci
1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-admiral De Ruyter beats English
1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquers Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1670 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London
1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
1700 Pacific Island of New Britain discovered
1713 French troops bomb Willemstad, Curacao
1801 Washington, D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
1813 US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
Music Premiere
1814 Ludwig van Beethoven's 8th Symphony in F premieres
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Event of Interest
1816 Dutch regain Suriname from the French after the defeat of Napoleon
French Emperor
Napoléon Bonaparte
1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
1850 12th Grand National: Chris Green aboard Abd-El-Kader wins
1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
1856 18th Grand National: George Stevens aboard Freetrader wins
Event of Interest
1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency
16th US President
Abraham Lincoln
1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw
1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1864 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1864 Near Andersonville, Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1869 John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress
1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1874 Baseball 1st played in England at Lord's Cricket Ground
Election of Interest
1877 US Electoral College declares Rutherford B. Hayes winner of the presidential election
19th US President
Rutherford B. Hayes
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1881 Battle at Amajuba: South African Boers vs British army under General Colley
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m) in San Francisco; match is a draw
1900 Battle at Pietershoogte during the Boer War
1900 Boer General Cronjé surrenders to British in Pardenberg, South Africa
1900 In London, the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet, results in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern Labour Party in 1906
1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
1901 A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Government's insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers
1906 France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
Event of Interest
1907 Psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud meet for the first time in Vienna
Father of Psy
chology
Sigmund FreudPsychiatrist
Carl Jung
1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
Event of Interest
1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
General and Secretary of War
Horatio Kitchener
1919 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"
1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
1921 US Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard; US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna
1921 The Fascists incite a riot in Florence, Italy
Conference of Interest
1922 US Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
31st US President
Herbert Hoover
1922 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II" premieres in NYC
1922 US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment to the US Constuituent - women's right to vote
1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls
Event of Interest
1925 Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA leaves 38 dead
1933 The Reichstag, German parliament building, destroyed by fire; set by the Nazis, who blame it on Communists
1933 Jean Genet's "Intermezzo" premieres in Paris
Sigmund FreudPsychiatrist
Carl Jung
1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
Event of Interest
1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
General and Secretary of War
Horatio Kitchener
1919 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"
1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
1921 US Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard; US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna
1921 The Fascists incite a riot in Florence, Italy
Conference of Interest
1922 US Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
31st US President
Herbert Hoover
1922 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II" premieres in NYC
1922 US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment to the US Constuituent - women's right to vote
1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls
Event of Interest
1925 Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA leaves 38 dead
1933 The Reichstag, German parliament building, destroyed by fire; set by the Nazis, who blame it on Communists
1933 Jean Genet's "Intermezzo" premieres in Paris
Event of Interest
1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1
Speed Skater
Bonnie Blair
1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten and Fischer freed in Holland
1989 Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo
1990 Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
1990 No-one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years
1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1
Speed Skater
Bonnie Blair
1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten and Fischer freed in Holland
1989 Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo
1990 Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
1990 No-one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years