Year 741
St Zachary begun his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III.
Year 1347
Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo was declared as heretics by Pope Clemens VI.
Year 1557
1st Covenant of Scottish Protestants was formed.
Year 1586
Sir Thomas Herriot introduced potatoes to England from Colombia.
Year 1639
1st annulment by court decree was passed.
Year 1676
Battle of Lund (Scanian War): Swedish army of 8,000 defeated a larger joint Danish/Dutch force of 13,000.
Year 1678
Edmund Halley received MA from The Queen’s College, Oxford.
Year 1685
Jews from settling in Stockholm, Sweden were put behind the bars by Charles II.
Year 1694
English parliamentary election was set for every 3 years.
Year 1699
Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer—General of the Hague.
Year 1736
Astronomer Anders Celsius took measurements that confirmed Newton’s theory —the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere.
Year 1775
First official US flag was raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred.
Year 1818
Illinois became 21st state USA (Admission day).
Year 1828
Andrew Jackson was elected as 7th US President.
Year 1833
The first truly coeducational college was opened in Ohio—Oberlin College.
Year 1834
First US dental society was organized (NY).
Year 1835
First US mutual fire insurance company issued the first policy (Rhode Island).
Year 1844
RC Society Apostole of Prayer was formed.
Year 1847
Frederick Douglass published first issue of his newspaper “North Star”.
Year 1854
Eureka Stockade which is claimed by many people to be the birth of Australian democracy, over 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, were killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses.
Year 1863
Confederate General James Longstreet abandoned his siege at Knoxville, TN.
Year 1868
1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial.
Year 1878
Settlers arrived at Petach Tikvah, Israel.
Year 1881
Henry Morton Stanley found Leopoldville (now Kinshasa).
Year 1883
48th US Congress (1883-85) was assembled.
Year 1901
Milwaukee was dropped from the AL and was replaced by St Louis Browns.
Year 1903
Panglima Polim surrendered to Capt. Colijn at Atjeh.
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