Here are some of the important things happened today in history:
240 BC 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.804 Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Munster
988 Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during
armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free
aizoji temple
1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege
1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1814 Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
1822 Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 Ether used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Ga)
1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg chosen as king George of Greece
1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
1865 -4] Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1866 Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride) premieres
1867 US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly)
1870 15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 Florida territorial government established.
1870 45th Grand National: Count Karel Kinsky AUT aboard Zoedone AUT win
1885 The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
188 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY)
1893 Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1894 56th Grand National: Arthur Nightingall aboard Why Not wins
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