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• 1244 - Battle of La Forbie : Crusaders were defeated by Khwarezmians & Egyptians
• 1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland was captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years
• 1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile. Their marriage leads to the unification of AragonComunidad Autonoma de Aragon Capital Zaragoza Area total % of Spain Ranked 4th 47 719 km² 9,4% Population Total (2003) % of Spain Density Ranked 11th 1 217 514 2,9% 25,51/km² Demonym English Spanish Aragonese aragones Statute of Autonomy August 16, 1982 I and CastileA former kingdom of Spain, Castile comprises the two regions of Old Castile in north-western Spain, and New Castile in the centre of the country. Previously an eastern county of the kingdom of Leon, Castile in the 11th century became an independent realm in a single country, SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc
• 1604Events January 14 Hampton Court conference with James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans September 20 Capture of Ostend by Spanish forces under Ambrosio Spinola after a three year siege. November 1 At Whitehall Palace in Lo - Kepler's StarSupernova 1604 also known as Kepler's Supernova or Kepler's Star was a supernova in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus. As of 2004, it is the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, occurring no greater than 6 kiloparsecs from E: GermanThe word German can mean: From or related to Germany or its predecessor states see also the German language Germanic tribes Holy Roman Empire ( 843- 1806) German Confederation ( 1815- 1866) North German Confederation ( 1867 1871) German Empire ( 1871- 191 astronomerAn astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered the relationship between the luminosty and periodicity of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds. Historians often argue Johannes KeplerThis article is about Johannes Kepler the astronomer. For the planned planet-finding space telescope, see Kepler Space Mission. Johannes Kepler ( December 27, 1571 November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German astronomer, mat observed that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
• 1662 - Charles II of England sold Dunkerque to France for 40 000 pounds
• 1777 - American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga
• 1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionaries at Yorktown, Virginia
• 1800 - England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao
• 1806 - Former leader of the Great Slave Rebellion of 1791, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule
• 1860 - First British golf open
• 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)
• 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War
• 1917 - First British bombing of Germany in World War I
• 1931 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion
• 1933 - Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US
• 1937 - Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck's three almost identical nephews, first appeared in a newspaper comic strip.
• 1941 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship
• 1945 - A massive number of people gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (day of loyalty) or San Perón (Saint Perón). It's considered the birthday of Peronism.
• 1961 - 200 Algerian protesters are massacred by the Paris police
• 1967 - The musical Hair opens at the Anspacher Theater on Broadway.
• 1970 - Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt
• 1970 - Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
• 1973 - OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria
• 1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1979 - The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the United States Department of Education and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Both replace the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
• 1984 - The New York Times runs an article titled " CIA primer tells nicaraguan rebels how to kill", which describes a secret "Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare" manual that the CIA supplied to the Contras and that gives instructions on how to kidnap and assassinate civil officials such as judges and policemen.
• 1989 - Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area.
• 1994 - Draft peace treaty between Israel and Jordan
• 1994 - Peace treaty between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels
• 2003 - Carlos Mesa becomes President of Bolivia.
• 2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 106-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.