1827 – The first nautical school opened in Nantucket, MA, under the name Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin’s Lancasterian School. 1849 – A patent for lifting…
1827 – The first nautical school opened in Nantucket, MA, under the name Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin’s Lancasterian School. 1849 – A patent for lifting…
1805 – Napoleon was crowned in Milan, Italy. 1863 – The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War. 1918 –…
1647 – Alse Young (Achsah Young or Alice Young), a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a “witch.” It was the first recorded…
1660 – King Charles II of England landed at Dover after being exiled for nine years. 1670 – A treaty was signed in secret in…
585 BC – The first known prediction of a solar eclipse was made in Greece. 1085 – Alfonso VI took Toledo, Spain from the Moslems.…
1798 – Believing that a French invasion of Ireland was imminent, Irish nationalists rose up against the British occupation. 1844 – Samuel F.B. Morse formally…
1430 – Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians. She was then sold to the English. 1873 – Canada’s North West Mounted Police force was…
1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet. 1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king…
0996 – Sixteen year old Otto III was crowned the Roman Emperor. 1471 – King Henry VI was killed in the tower of London. Edward…
1506 – In Spain, Christopher Columbus died in poverty. 1520 – Hernando Cortez defeated Spanish troops that had been sent to punish him in Mexico.…
1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier set sail for North America. 1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded…
1643 – Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, was granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king’s…
1540 – Afghan chief Sher Khan defeated Moghul Emperor Humayun at Kanauj. 1630 – Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi saw the belts on Jupiter’s surface. 1681 – Louis…
1770 – Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15. 1868 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson was…
1614 – An aristocratic uprising in France ended with the treaty of St.Menehould. 1618 – Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law. 1702 – The War…
1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de…
1607 – An expedition led by Captain Christopher Newport arrived at Jamestown, Virginia. The passengers went ashore the next day and this site became the…
1588 – King Henry III fled Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly entered the city. 1780 – Charleston, South Carolina fell to British forces. 1870…
0330 – Constantinople, previously the town of Byzantium, was founded. 1573 – Henry of Anjou became the first elected king of Poland. 1647 – Peter…
1503 – Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands. 1676 – Bacon’s Rebellion, which pits frontiersmen against the government, began. 1768 – The imprisonment of the…