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Events:C/P.
363 Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
1487 Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
1745 British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1745 Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1746 War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
1755 French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beaus้jour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
1774 Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1779 Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1795 First Battle of Groix otherwise known as "Cornwallis' Retreat".
1815 Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
1816 Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
1836 The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
1846 The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
1858 Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
1858 The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
1871 The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
1883 The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
1891 John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.
1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1903 The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1903 Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1904 Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
1911 IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1911 A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1915 Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1922 General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn F้in win a large majority.
1924 The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
1925 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
1930 Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1933 The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
1940 World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe P้tain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'ษtat Fran็ais).
1940 A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1958 Imre Nagy, Pแl Mal้ter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1961 Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1963 Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1967 The Monterey Pop Festival begins
1972 Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1972 The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
1976 Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
1977 Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1989 Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
1997 The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
2000 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Shebaa Farms.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
363 Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
1487 Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
1745 British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1745 Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1746 War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
1755 French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beaus้jour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
1774 Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1779 Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1795 First Battle of Groix otherwise known as "Cornwallis' Retreat".
1815 Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
1816 Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
1836 The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
1846 The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
1858 Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
1858 The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
1871 The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
1883 The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
1891 John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.
1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1903 The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1903 Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1904 Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
1911 IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1911 A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1915 Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1922 General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn F้in win a large majority.
1924 The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
1925 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
1930 Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1933 The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
1940 World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe P้tain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'ษtat Fran็ais).
1940 A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1958 Imre Nagy, Pแl Mal้ter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1961 Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1963 Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1967 The Monterey Pop Festival begins
1972 Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1972 The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
1976 Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
1977 Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1989 Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
1997 The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
2000 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Shebaa Farms.
End of C/P.