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- 1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
- 1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.
- 1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
- 1760 - The "Great Fire" of Boston destroys 349 buildings.
- 1815 - NapoleonFor other meanings, see Napoleon (disambiguation . Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 5 May 1821) was a general and ruler of France. General of the French Revolution, he was the effective ruler of France starting in 1799: First Consul Premier Consul of t enters ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to after escaping from ElbaSee Village of Elba, New York and Town of Elba, New York for the locations in the United States. Elba is an island in Tuscany, Italy, 20 km from the coastal town of Grosseto. It is the biggest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, and the third biggest Italia with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
- 18481848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). Events Sri Lanka The Revolution of 1848 (qv. a series of widespread but failed struggles for more liberal governments, from Brazil to Hungary. January 24 California gold rush: Jame - King Ludwig I of BavariaLudwig I (or Louis I which is the French form of his name) ( August 25, 1786 February 29, 1868) was king of Bavaria from 1825 until 1848. He was the son of Maximilian I and Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1810 he married Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen ( abdicates.
- 1852Events January 14 President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. January 17 United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal Devil's Island penal colony opens February 11 First British public toilet - Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe ( June 14, 1811 July 1, 1896) was an abolitionist, and writer of more than 10 books, the most famous being Uncle Tom's Cabin which describes life in slavery, and which was first published in serial form from 1851 to 1852 in an abolit's Uncle Tom's CabinSimon Legree menaces Uncle Tom Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe which has slavery as one of its main themes. Many writers have credited this novel with doing much to inflame the passions of Northerners to work for the abolition of sla is published.
- 1883 - Signature of Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
- 1899 - At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.
- 1904 - Aleister Crowley invokes Horus in Egypt and declares the start of the New Aeon known as the Aeon Of The Crowned And Conquering Child.
- 1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
- 1914 - In New Haven, Connecticut the first international figure skating championship takes place.
- 1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.
- 1922 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- 1933 - Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
- 1952 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
- 1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France.
- 1964 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
- 1966 - The World Cup is stolen from Central Hall , London
- 1969 - Marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
- 1974 - A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
- 1976 - Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco Bank.
- 1979 - REXX programming language created
- 1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.
- 1986 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1987 - The Food and Drug Administration approves anti- AIDS drug AZT.
- 1990 - Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
- 1993 - An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in Warrington, North West England, killing two children.
- 1995 - Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
- 1996 - In Los Angeles, California, Erik and Lyle Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
- 2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther, is captured after gun battle that left a sheriff's deputy dead.
- 2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
- 2004 - Millions worldwide protest the 2003 Iraq War under the slogan, "The World STILL Says No To War!"
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