1066: William the Conqueror’s troops set sail from Normandy to invade England

1290: Earthquake in the Gulf of Chihli (Bohai Sea) near China reportedly kills 100,000 people

1779: John Adams is appointed to negotiate Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain

1821: Mexican revolutionary forces led by Agustín de Iturbide occupy Mexico City as the Spanish withdraw, bringing an end to the Mexican War of Independence

1822: French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone

1831: Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first Head of State of modern Greece, is assassinated in Nafplion

1908: Henry Ford’s first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan

Source: Onthisday.com