henric
04-19-2012, 11:56 AM
14327
Events:C/P.
65 The freedman Milichus betrayed Pisos plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested.
1012 Martyrdom of Ζlfheah in Greenwich, London.
1529 The Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism; a group of rulers (German: Fόrst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
1677 The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1713 With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
1770 Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
1775 American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782 John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1809 An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1839 The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
1855 Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
1861 American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1892 Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1919 Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1927 Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1942 World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1943 Bicycle Day Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1945 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
1948 Burma joins the United Nations.
1950 Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1951 General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1954 The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
1955 The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
1971 Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
1975 India's first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
1984 Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1985 FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
1985 U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
1997 The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
2005 His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II. The new Pope takes on the regnal name Benedict XVI.
2011 Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
65 The freedman Milichus betrayed Pisos plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested.
1012 Martyrdom of Ζlfheah in Greenwich, London.
1529 The Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism; a group of rulers (German: Fόrst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
1677 The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1713 With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
1770 Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
1775 American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782 John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1809 An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1839 The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
1855 Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
1861 American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1892 Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1919 Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1927 Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1942 World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1943 Bicycle Day Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1945 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
1948 Burma joins the United Nations.
1950 Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1951 General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1954 The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
1955 The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
1971 Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
1975 India's first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
1984 Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1985 FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
1985 U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
1997 The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
2005 His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II. The new Pope takes on the regnal name Benedict XVI.
2011 Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
End of C/P.