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Events:C/P.
51 Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1238 The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1351 Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1493 Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niρa from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1628 The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1776 American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
1790 France is divided into 83 dιpartements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791 A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
1794 The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
1804 Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1814 Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1848 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
1861 The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865 The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1882 Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890 The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
1899 Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1908 The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
1913 First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1917 Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1918 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1918 The USS Cyclops (AC-4) departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
1933 Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1941 World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
1943 World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
1944 World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1945 Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
1966 A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1974 People magazine is published for the first time.
1976 The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
1980 Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1983 Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1985 The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1991 Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
1996 A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998 Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2007 Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
2009 The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
51 Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1238 The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1351 Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1493 Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niρa from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1628 The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1776 American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
1790 France is divided into 83 dιpartements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791 A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
1794 The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
1804 Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1814 Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1848 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
1861 The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865 The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1882 Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890 The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
1899 Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1908 The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
1913 First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1917 Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1918 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1918 The USS Cyclops (AC-4) departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
1933 Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1941 World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
1943 World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
1944 World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1945 Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
1966 A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1974 People magazine is published for the first time.
1976 The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
1980 Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1983 Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1985 The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1991 Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
1996 A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998 Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2007 Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
2009 The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
End of C/P.