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Year 1264

Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.

Year 1509

Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.

Year 1607

Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.

Year 1608

The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.

Year 1610

Henry IV of France is assassinated, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.

Year 1643

Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

Year 1747

War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.

Year 1787

In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.

Year 1796

Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.

Year 1800

The process of the U.S. Government moving the United States capital city from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. begins.

Year 1804

The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.

Year 1811

Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor

Year 1836

The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.

Year 1863

American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.

Year 1868

Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.

Year 1870

The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

Year 1878

The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.

Year 1879

The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.

Year 1913

Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

Year 1925

Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

Year 1931

Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.

Year 1935

The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.

Year 1939

Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

Year 1940

World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.

Year 1940

World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.

Year 1943

World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.

Year 1948

Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Year 1951

Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.

Year 1955

Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.

Year 1961

Civil Rights Movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.

Year 1970

Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of The Red Army Faction.

Year 1973

Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

Year 1988

Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.

Year 2004

The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.

Year 2012

Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.

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