514 St Hormisdas Elected As Pope Succeeding Pope Sympowerus
1031 Henry I Succeeds Father Robert II As King Of The Franks (1031-60)
1054 Patriarch Of Constantinople Michael Caerularius, As Head Of A Synod Held In Constantinople Excommunicates Cardinal Humbert Of The Western Church (Rome)
1304 Wars Of Scottish Independence: Fall Of Stirling Castle – King Edward I Of England Takes The Last Rebel Stronghold Of The War
1402 Battle At Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur’ Beats Sultan Bajezid I’s Ottoman Forces
1402 Timur, His Army And 32 Elephants Win The Battle Of Ankara, During His Invasion Of Anatolia, Capturing The Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I
1495 French Viceroy Of Naples Montpensier Surrenders
1498 Emperor Maximilian Names Albrecht Governor Of Netherlands
1553 John Dudley, Lord President Of The Council Under Edward VI, Captured In Cambridge
1609 Emperor Rudolf II Grants Silezische Protestants Freedom Of Religion
1619 Gerardus Vossius Resigns As Dutch Regent States College Leader
1654 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty, Portugal Comes Under English Control
1712 The Riot Act Takes Effect In Great Britain.
1738 North America: French Explorer Pierre Gaultier De Varennes Et De La Vérendrye Reaches The Western Shore Of Lake Michigan
1749 Earl Of Chesterfield Says “Idleness Is Only Refuge Of Weak Minds”
1773 Scottish Settlers Arrive At Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1793 Scottish Explorer Alexander Mackenzie Completes The First European East-To-West Crossing Of America North Of Mexico
1801 Elisha Brown Jr Presses A 1,235 Pound Cheese Ball At His Farm
1808 Napoleon Decrees All French Jews Adopt Family Names
1810 Citizens Of Bogotá, New Granada (Now Colombia), Declare Independence From Spain
1837 Euston Railway Station Opens In London As The Terminus Of The London And Birmingham Railway (L&BR), The City’s 1st Intercity Railway Station
1847 German Astronomer Theodor Discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf
1849 Start Of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire Clash At Hyde Park, Sheffield
1855 1st Train From Rotterdam To Utrecht In Netherlands
1858 Fee 1st Charged To See A Baseball Game (50 Cents) (NY Beats Bkln 22-18)
1858 Gathering Of Plombieres – Napoleon III Meets Cavour
1861 Confederate States’ Congress Began Holding Sessions In Richmond, Virginia
1862 Guerrilla Campaign In Georgia (Porter’s & Poindexter’s)
1864 Battle At Stephenson’s Depot, Virginia: 200 Killed Or Injured
1864 Battle Of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
1866 Sea Battle Of Lissa-Austria Vs Italy
1868 1st Use Of Tax Stamps On Cigarettes
1871 British Columbia Joins The Confederation Of Canada.
1876 1st US Intercollegiate Track Meet Held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton Wins
1877 Military Shoots On Stopped Railroad Workers In Baltimore, Kills 9
1878 1st Telephone Introduced In Hawaii
1890 “Gibbons Stamp Monthly” begins publishing
1890 Snow and hail in Calais, Maine
1894 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1896 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Harold Mahony beats 3-time champion Wilfred Baddeley 6-2, 6-8, 5-7, 8-6, 6-3
1901 Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco’s frontier with Algeria, a French colony
1906 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 2-0 at Robison Field, St. Louis
1907 A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more
1910 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1911 Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1911 Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
1912 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
1913 Turkish troops take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria
1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
1916 Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cincinnati Reds
1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats & Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1920 Dutch soccer club Sportclub Heerenveen is formed; initially known as Athleta; KNVB Cup Champions 2008–09
1921 Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives
