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Year 552

Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fighting king Totila is mortally wounded.

Year 1097

Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.

Year 1431

The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.

Year 1523

Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.

Year 1569

Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.

Year 1643

First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.

Year 1690

Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).

Year 1766

François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.

Year 1770

Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.

Year 1782

Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Year 1819

Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.

Year 1837

A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.

Year 1855

Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.

Year 1858

Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.

Year 1862

The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.

Year 1862

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.

Year 1862

American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.

Year 1863

Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.

Year 1863

American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.

Year 1867

The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.

Year 1870

The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.

Year 1873

Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.

Year 1874

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.

Year 1878

Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.

Year 1879

Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.

Year 1881

The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.[1]

Year 1881

General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.

Year 1885

The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.

Year 1887

Clay Allison, eccentric gunfighter and rancher, dies in a freak wagon accident in Texas.

Year 1890

Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.

Year 1898

Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.

Year 1903

Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.

Year 1908

SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.

Year 1911

Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.

Year 1915

Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.

Year 1916

World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.

Year 1922

The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.

Year 1923

The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.

Year 1931

United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).

Year 1931

Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a fixed-wing aircraft.

Year 1932

Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.

Year 1935

Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.

Year 1942

World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.

Year 1942

The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.

Year 1943

Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).

Year 1947

The Philippine Air Force is established.

Year 1948

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.

Year 1949

The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.

Year 1957

The International Geophysical Year begins.

Year 1958

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.

Year 1958

Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.

Year 1959

Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.

Year 1960

Independence of Somalia.

Year 1960

Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.

Year 1962

Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.

Year 1963

ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.

Year 1963

The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.

Year 1966

The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.

Year 1967

Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.

Year 1968

The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.

Year 1968

The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.

Year 1968

Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO in the United States.

Year 1972

The first Gay pride march in England takes place.

Year 1976

Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.

Year 1978

The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.

Year 1979

Sony introduces the Walkman.

Year 1980

"O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.

Year 1983

A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.

Year 1984

The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.

Year 1987

The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.

Year 1990

German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.

Year 1991

The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.

Year 1997

China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Year 1999

The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.

Year 2002

The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

Year 2002

Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.

Year 2003

Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.

Year 2004

Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.

Year 2006

The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in China.

Year 2007

Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.

Year 2008

Rioting erupts in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.

Year 2013

Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.

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Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.

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