1856 – Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria. 1886 – The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz,…
1856 – Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria. 1886 – The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz,…
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first English colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts. 1819 – British Statesman and Founder of Singapore Sir…
1880 – Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp. 1888 – The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, DC. 1926 – John Baird, a…
Indian Republic turns 72 1482 – “Pentateuch” (Jewish Bible) 1st printed as a book in Bologna, Italy 1697 – Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli’s 6…
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 1890 –…
1764 – Gov Winthrop Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire 1839 – Charles Darwin elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1857 – The University…
1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. 1849 – English-born Elizabeth…
1666 – Shah Jahan, a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, died at the age of 74. He was the Mongul emperor of India that…
1793 – Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty, dividing Poland. 1793 – Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his…
1778 – 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass 1841 – China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War…