1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. 1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.…
1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. 1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.…
1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England. 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River. 1495 –…
1806 – A Spanish army repelled the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1811 – Venezuela became the first South American country…
1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers. 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in…
1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. 1894 – Korea declared independence from China…
1880 – France annexed Tahiti. 1903 – The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo. 1905 – Russian troops intervened as riots erupted…
1635 – The French colony of Guadeloupe was established in the Caribbean. 1675 – Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes. 1709 – The Russians…
1743 – King George II of England defeated the French at Dettingen, Bavaria, in the War of the Austrian Succession. 1787 – Edward Gibbon completed…
1096 – Peter the Hermit’s crusaders forced their way across Sava, Hungary. 1243 – The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out by…
1658 – Aurangzeb proclaimed himself emperor of the Moghuls in India. 1867 – Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire. 1868 – The U.S.…