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• 1328 - William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
• 1538 - Geneva throws out John Calvin.
• 1637 - Pequot War: an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in ConnecticutConnecticut is a state of the United States, part of the New England region. Connecticut was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. USS Connecticut was named in honor of this state. History Main article, killing approximately 500 inhabitants.
• 1670Events January 21 Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn, Middlesex April Pope Clement X is elected. May 2 The Hudson's Bay Company is formed in England. May 26 In Dover, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France secretly sign a treaty ending h - In Dover, Charles II of EnglandCharles II ( 29 May 1630 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 30 January 1649 de jure or 29 May 1660 de facto until his death. Charles II's father, Charles I, had been executed in 1649 following the English Civil War; the mo and Louis XIV of FranceHyacinthe Rigaud (1701 Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonne) ( 5 September 1638 1 September 1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from 14 May 1643 until his death. He was a minor when he inherited the Crown; he did not actually assume personal control secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms.
• 1736Events January 26 Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. february 12 Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor weds Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette May 8 Marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. May 26 Battle of Ackia: British - Battle of AckiaIt was on May 26, 1736, that the Chickasaws, headed by the English, repulsed an attack made by 600 Choctaws under the command of Bienville. The battle of Ackia was one of the numerous Indian battles, supported by Europeans, for the control of the Mississi: BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain was created by the merger of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England in 1707 (see Act of Union 1707). A single parliament and government, based in Westminster in London, ran the entire kingdom. They had shared a monarch si and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
• 1805 - In Milan's cathedral, Napoleon I of France is crowned King of Italy.
• 1828 - Mysterious foundling Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by the United States Congress.
• 1864 - Montana is organized as a United States territory.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
• 1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
• 1879 - Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
• 1896 - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1896 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• 1897 - The novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, goes on sale in London.
• 1906 - Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
• 1908 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
• 1918 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
• 1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• 1940 - World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk.
• 1948 - The United States Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
• 1963 - The Organisation of African Unity is formed.
• 1966 - British Guiana gains independence, as Guyana.
• 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
• 1970 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
• 1972 - Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
• 1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 1977 - George Willig , a toy maker from Brooklyn, uses homemade climbing equipment to scale the World Trade Center.
• 1978 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International , the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
• 1986 - The European Community adopts the European flag.
• 1991 - A Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 explodes over rural Thailand killing 223.
• 2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
• 2002 - Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
• 2003 - Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
• 2004 - The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.