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1.1 1500-1799

• 1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
• 1643 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
• 1787 - The United States Congress enacts the Northwest OrdinanceThe Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Freedom Ordinance was an act of the Continental Congress of the United States passed on July 13, 17 establishing governing rules for the Northwest TerritoryThis article is about the historic region of the United States; you may be looking for North-Western Territory, British North American territory Northwest Territories, present-day Canadian territory Pacific Northwest, unofficial region in the United State. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slaverySlavery is involuntary servitude, enforced by violence or other, clear forms of coercion. It is sometimes regarded as an expectation associated with other relationships, such as marriage and/or other family relations, military service, or debt relationshi.
• 1793Events January 2 Russia and Prussia partition Poland January 9 Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States. January 21 After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, "Citizen Capet" ie. Louis XVI of Fran - Jean Paul Marat, one of the leaders of the French revolution, is murdered by Charlotte CordayPaul Jacques Aime Baudry, painted 1858: Under the Second Empire, Marat was seen as a revolutionary monster and Corday as a heroine of France, represented in the wall-map. Charlotte Corday ( July 27, 1768 July 17, 1793), more fully Marie Anne Charlotte Cor.
• 1794Events February 11 1st session of US Senate open to the public. March 14 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. March 27 The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy and authorized the building of six vessels (in 17 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria

1.2 1800-1899

• 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.
• 1837 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.
• 1863 - American Civil War: In New York City, draft opponents begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
• 1854 - In the battle of Guaymas , Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon .
• 1878 - Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia and Montenegro become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.