1542 – Princess Mary Stuart succeeds her father James V and becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland at 6 days old 1751 – The first…
1542 – Princess Mary Stuart succeeds her father James V and becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland at 6 days old 1751 – The first…
1866 – 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean 1872 – 1st black US govenor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La) 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi,…
1887 – Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty 1898 – Spanish-American War formally ended by the Treaty of Paris; US acquires Philippines,…
1747 – Great Britain & Netherlands sign military treaty 1762 – British parliament accepts Treaty of Paris 1783 – First execution at Newgate Jail in…
1792 – 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens 1914 – Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron 1923 –…
1741 – Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia 1835 – Bavarian Ludwig railway opens – first German steam railway 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his…
1631 – 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed 1768 – 1st edition of “Encyclopedia Brittanica” published (Scotland)\ 1825 – Pres John Adams suggests…
1360 – The French Franc is created 1840 – Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death 1893 –…
1789 – U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. 1867 – J.B. Sutherland patented…
1783 – Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States 1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite 1943 – U-600 sinks in…