388 Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis
754 Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France
1148 Second Crusade: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus
1330 Battle of Velbuzd: Serbian forces defeats Bulgarian army
1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1635 Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquers Schenkenschans
1696 De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
1708 Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC
1717 Prussian king Frederik Willhelm I gives compulsory education to 5-12 years.
1741 Captain Vitus Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska
1742 Maria Theresa of Austria and Prussian King Frederick the Great sign a peace treaty in Berlin
1790 Henry James Pye appointed as British Poet Laureate by King George III
1794 French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of “the Terror” guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1858 First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service
1858 French photographer and balloonist Nadar takes the 1st airborne photo, in a balloon, of French village of Petit-Becetre 80 meters in the air
1862 Confederate forces defeated at More’s Hill, Missouri
1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
