Here we have pinned together some of the great events happened today in history. Have a look to most of the great people contribution in some or the other way to our country.
502 King Gundobar of Burgundy delegates royal power
1461 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Duke Edward of York defeats the Lancastrian army, deposes King Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou and proclaims himself as King Edward IV
1549 The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1632 Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware
1673 English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholics excluded from public functions
1792 King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
1795 Ludwig van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as pianist in Vienna
1798 Republic of Switzerland forms
1799 New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
1804 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1806 Construction is
1809 King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1831 Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
1847 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849 Great Britain formally
1850 SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
1860 Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in NYC
1864 Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece
1865 -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA, 7582 killed
1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is given Royal Assent
1878 39th Grand National: J. Jones aboard Shifnal wins
1879 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow
1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men?
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