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Day	Year	Location	Description
1	1006		Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus.
1	1464		Edward IV secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville.
1	1786	Vienna	Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premiers.
2	1519	Cloux	Leonardo da Vinci dies in Cloux, France.
2	1892		Manfred von Richthofen, ("the Red Baron") is born.
3	1415		Cecily, Duchess of York (mother of Richard III) is born.
3	1446	Fotheringay Castle	Birth of Margaret, sister to Edward IV and Richard III and later Duchess of Burgundy
3	1469		Machiavelli is born.
3	1810	Hellespont	Lord Byron swims the Hellespont from Sestos to Abydos.
4	1471	Tewkesbury	Battle of Tewkesbury. York victory.
4	1483	Bishops Palace	Edward V moved to Bishops Palace
4	1483	London	Original Coronation date for Edward V. (son of Edward IV). Richard and Buckingham escort Edward V into London
4	1626		Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
4	1865	Oak Ridge Cemetery	Lincoln's body was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
5	1450	Leicester	Earl of Warwick enters Leicester with 400 men.
5	1494	Jamaica	Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica, which he names Santa Gloria.
5	1865	Washington	The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery.
6	1682	Versailles	King Louis XIV moves his court to Versailles, France.
6	1937	Lakehurst, NJ	Airship Hindenburg, the largest of the airships was destroyed by fire caused by electromagnetic discharge igniting the inflammable hydrogen cells. 35 passengers and crew died. 62 Survived. There have been speculations that the Hindenburg was sabotaged, but none of these claims have been sustained by evidence.Weather patterns in Lakehurst were stormy at the time, and there was no knowledge of modern day de-gaussing techniques.
7	1765		HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship was launched. HMS Victory is still in commission to this day.
7	1812		Robert Browning, poet, born.
7	1824		Beethoven's Ninth Symphony debuts.
7	1833		Johannes Brahms, composer, born.
8	535		Pope John II dies.
8	615		St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
8	685		Pope St Benedict II dies.
8	1450		Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
8	1541		Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River.
8	1559	London	An act of supremacy defines Queen Elizabeth I as the supreme governor of the church of England.
9	1502		Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to the New World.
9	1825	New York City	The first gas-lighted theater in America opened. It was the Chatham Theater.
9	1860	Scotland	James M. Barrie, Author (Peter Pan) is born.
9	1873		Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen is born
10	1190		Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade.
10	1285		French King Philip III is succeed as King by Philip IV.
10	1503		Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands.
10	1566		Leonhard Fuchs German botanist, dies at 65.
10	1773		To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the colonies.
10	1774		Louis XVI succeeds his father Louis XV as King of France.
10	1776	Philadelphia	The Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.
10	1794		Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI, is beheaded.
10	1796		Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy.
10	1798		George Vancouver British explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
10	1857		The Seepoys of India revolt against the British Army.
10	1863		Gen Stonewall Jackson dies from wounds received at Chancellorsville.
10	1910		William Huggins discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies.
11	1573		Henry of Anjou becomes the first elected king of Poland.
11	1888		Irving Berlin,composer is born
12	254	Rome	St. Stephen I begins his reign as Pope.
12	1588		King Henry III flees Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly enters the city.
12	1820	Florence, Italy	Florence Nightengale is born.
13	1483	London	Richard summoned Parliament to meet on June 25, 1983
13	1861	London	Britain declares its neutrality in the American Civil War.
14	1610		French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) is assassinated by a fanatical monk, Franois Ravillac.
15	1464	Hexham	Battle of Hexham. York victory.
15	1618		Johannes Kepler publishes his Third Law of planetary motion.
15	1928	Los Angeles	Walt Disney's first silent film featuring the debut of "the Mouse", Mickey Mouse, in "Plane Crazy" is premiered. "Plane Crazy" was inspired by Charles Lindbergh's trans-atlantic flight, and the Oswald film "The Ocean Hop" and was produced at a cost of (US) $1772.89 to make. Minnie Mouse also debuts.
16	1770		Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France.
16	1920	Rome	Joan of Arc is canonized.
17	1443	Castle at Rouen (France)	Birth of Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (died at Wakefield)
17	1756		Britain declares war on France, beginning the French and Indian War.
17	1814		Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden.
18	1910		Mark Twain dies.
19	1483	Tower of London	Edward V moved to the Tower of London.
19	1536	London	Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife and mother to Elizabeth is executed. Henry marries Jane Seymour.
20	526	Antioch, Syria	Earthquake kills 250,000.
20	1506		Christopher Colombus explorer, dies in poverty in Spain at 55.
20	1690		England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.
20	1799		Honore de Balzac France, novelist, born.
20	1806		John Stuart Mill, philosopher is born.
20	1927		Charles Lindbergh takes off in the Spirit of St. Louis in the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic to Paris.
21	1471	London	Edward IV makes a triumphal entry into London.
21	1927	Le Bourget Field	33 hours 29 minutes after leaving New York and 3,610 miles later, Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris, 10:21 P.M., Paris time.
21	1937	Los Angeles	Amelia Earhart departs on her fateful flight.
22	337		Roman emperor Constantine dies of natural causes.
22	1455	St. Alban's	Battle of St. Alban's (1st battle). York victory.
22	1471	The Tower of London	Henry VI found dead.
22	1859	Edinburgh	Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holms) is born.
23	1430		Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundians, who sell her to the English.
23	1533		Henry VIIIs marriage to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
23	1618		The Thirty Years War begins.
23	1785		Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.
24	1686		Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, inventor of the thermometer is born.
24	1819		Queen Victoria is born
24	1894	Lowell Observatory	Percival Lowell begins his systematic viewing of the planet Mars (concludes on April 3, 1895), during which time, he made 917 drawings and sketches and theorized that Mars contained canals- large pipes which carried water from the Martian caps to the center of the planet.
25	1085	Toledo	Alfonso VI takes Toledo from the Moslems.
25	1787	Philadelphia	The Constitutional convention opens with George Washington presiding.
25	1810		Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain.
26	17 BC		Germanicus of Rome celebrates his victory over the Germans.
26	1328		William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII.
26	1465	Westminster Abbey	Elizabeth Woodville crowned by Archbishop Bourchier as Queen of England.
27	1564	Geneva	John Calvin dies.
28	1805	Milan	Napoleon is crowned.
29	1265		Dante Alighieri poet and author of La Comedia ("The Divine Comedy") is born.
29	1453	Constantinople	4 o'clock in the morning, Constantinople suffers a furious assault from the Turks and collapses. This event heralded the fall of the Eastern portion of the Roman Empire. Constantinople later renamed to: Istanbul.
29	1630	England	Charles (later Charles II), King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, "The Merry Monarch" is born.
29	1953	Everest	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay at 11:30 am reached the summit of Everest: 29,028 feet above sea level, the highest spot on earth.
30	1416		Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church.
30	1431		Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English.
30	1593	London	Playwright Christopher Marlowe, contemporary of William Shakespeare is killed in a tavern brawl. He was 29.
31	1057	Coventry	Tax protester Lady Godiva rides naked through the streets.
31	1809	Vienna	Composer Franz Josef Hayden dies.