1620: Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, the 1st framework of government in the territory that is now the USA [N.S. Nov 21] 1675: German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army enters England 1918: WWI armistice signed by […]
1619: René Descartes has the dream that inspires his “Meditations on First Philosophy” 1674: Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English 1885: German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world’s first motorcycle 1918: Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, […]
1494: Piero the Unfortunate of the de’ Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses his power and flees the state 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul 1980: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran 1994: Darmstadtium, Chemical element 110, discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near […]
392: Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion 1519: 1st meeting of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II and Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico 1701: William Penn presents Charter of Privileges, guaranteed religious freedom for the colony in Pennsylvania 1734: Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands 1895: German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic […]
1492: Ensisheim Meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact. 1872: Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later 1917: [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional […]
1813: Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain 1860: Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois elected the 16th President of the United States of America 1913: Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners’ march in South Africa 1917: [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution 1978: Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi places the country […]
1492: Christopher Columbus 1st learns about growing and harvesting maize (corn) from Cuba’s indigenous population 1556: Second Battle of Panipat: Hindu Emperor of north India Hem Chandra Vikramaditya defeated by forces of Mughal Emperor Akbar, who captures and later beheads Hem Chandra 1605: Gunpowder Plot: Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. Plot discovered, Guy Fawkes […]
1576: Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp 1841: First wagon train arrives in California 1845: First nationally observed uniform election day in the Unites States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1862: American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis 1879: African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus […]
644: Umar ibn al-Khattab, second Muslim caliph, is killed in Medina by Lu’lu, an enslaved Persian captive 1534: English parliament passes the Act of Supremacy making Henry VIII and all subsequent monarchs the Head of the Church of England 1620: Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony 1640: English Long Parliament forms 1906: International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects “SOS” (· · · […]
1875: Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela in Angola, from Africa’s east coast, 1st European to cross equatorial Africa 1917: Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 1930: Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethiopian Solmonic Dynasty 1949: The Netherlands recognizes its former colony Indonesia as a sovereign state 1966: The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into […]
