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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…

1429 – Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans. 1502 – Christopher Columbus left Spain for his final trip to the Western Hemisphere. 1671 –…

1794 – Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen. 1794 – The United States Post Office was established.…

Indian Border Roads was born on 7th May 1960 1429 – The English siege of Orleans was broken by Joan of Arc. 1525 – The German…

1527 – German troops began sacking Rome, bringing about the end of the Renaissance. 1529 – Babur defeated the Afghan Chiefs in the Battle of…

1494 – Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica on his second trip to the Western Hemisphere. He named the island Santa Gloria. 1798 – U.S. Secretary of…

1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte disembarked at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. 1863 – The Battle of Chancellorsville ended when the Union…

1469 – Italian philosopher/writer Niccolo Machiavelli was born 1568 – French forces in Florida slaughtered hundreds of Spanish. 1802 – Washington, DC, was incorporated as…

1670 – The Hudson Bay Company was founded by England’s King Charles II. 1776 – France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels…

  Celebrated as Labour Day and observed as a holiday in many parts of the world. 0408 – Theodosius II succeeded to the throne of…

0030 – Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. 1250 – King Louis IX of France was ransomed for one million dollars. 1527 – Henry VIII and…

1289 – Qala’un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli. 1429 – Joan of Arc led Orleans, France, to victory over Britain. 1661 – The Chinese…