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380 Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
425 The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
907 Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China.
1560 The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1617 Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1700 The island of New Britain is discovered.
1776 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
1782 American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
1801 Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
1812 Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
1812 Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1829 Battle of Tarqui is fought.
1844 The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
1864 American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1870 The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
1881 First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
1898 King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
1900 Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 The British Labour Party is founded.
1900 Fuίball-Club Bayern Mόnchen is founded.
1902 Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria for war crimes.
1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1922 A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
1933 Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire, apparently by the Communists.
1939 United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
1942 World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
1951 The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1955 Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
1961 The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1962 Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1963 The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1964 The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1971 Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
1973 The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1976 The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1986 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1988 Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent massacre.
1989 Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
1991 Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
1995 Zakho: A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho leaves about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
2002 Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2002 Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu prigrims.
2004 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
2007 The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
2010 An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
2012 A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapses in a natural gas explosion, killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others.
2013 At least 19 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India.
2013 Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
Events:C/P.
380 Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
425 The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
907 Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China.
1560 The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1617 Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1700 The island of New Britain is discovered.
1776 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
1782 American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
1801 Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
1812 Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
1812 Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1829 Battle of Tarqui is fought.
1844 The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
1864 American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1870 The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
1881 First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
1898 King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
1900 Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 The British Labour Party is founded.
1900 Fuίball-Club Bayern Mόnchen is founded.
1902 Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria for war crimes.
1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1922 A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
1933 Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire, apparently by the Communists.
1939 United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
1942 World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
1951 The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1955 Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
1961 The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1962 Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1963 The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1964 The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1971 Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
1973 The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1976 The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1986 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1988 Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent massacre.
1989 Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
1991 Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
1995 Zakho: A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho leaves about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
2002 Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2002 Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu prigrims.
2004 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
2007 The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
2010 An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
2012 A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapses in a natural gas explosion, killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others.
2013 At least 19 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India.
2013 Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.