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1635 – The French colony of Guadeloupe was established in the Caribbean. 1675 – Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes. 1709 – The Russians…

1743 – King George II of England defeated the French at Dettingen, Bavaria, in the War of the Austrian Succession. 1787 – Edward Gibbon completed…

1096 – Peter the Hermit’s crusaders forced their way across Sava, Hungary. 1243 – The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out by…

1658 – Aurangzeb proclaimed himself emperor of the Moghuls in India. 1867 – Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire. 1868 – The U.S.…

1314 – Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland. 1340 – The…

1700 – Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire. 1758 – British and Hanoverian armies defeated…

1558 – The French took the French town of Thioville from the English. 1611 – English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people…

1404 – Owain Glyndwr established a Welsh Parliament at Machynlleth and was crowned Prince of Wales. 1859 – Andrew Lanergan received the first rocket patent.…

1397 – The Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch. 1756 – In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a…

0240 BC – Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth using two sticks. 1586 – English colonists sailed away from Roanoke Island, NC, after failing…

0362 – Emperor Julian issued an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria. 1789 – The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly,…

0455 – Rome was sacked by the Vandal army. 1487 – The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke. 1567 – Mary,…

1215 – King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta. 1381 – The English peasant revolt was crushed in London. 1389 –…

1775 – The Continental Army was founded by the Second Continental Congress for purposes of common defense. This event is considered to be the birth…

1415 – Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa. 1777 – The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American…

1442 – Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples. 1665 – England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former…

1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of…

1776 – The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence. 1801 – The North African State of Tripoli declared war on…

1923 – Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military. 1931 – Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design. 1940 – Norway surrendered to the…