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![]() Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s new queen crowned. |
![]() Derby horse race run for the first time. |
![]() The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York). |
![]() The British army seized King Charles I and held him as a hostage. |
![]() Margaret Drabble, English novelist, biographer and critic, born |
![]() World's first public museum, the Ashmolean, opened by Elias Ashmole in Oxford. |
![]() Port Royal, Jamaica, hit by a catastrophic earthquake. |
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![]() Iceland’s Laki volcano erupted and continued to spew lava for eight months. 9,350 people were killed and famine started and lasted until 1790. |
![]() Charles Dickens, Victorian novelist, dies. |
![]() The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo. |
![]() Steven Spielberg's dinosaur themed movie "Jurassic Park" opened. The adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel went on to gross in excess of $900 million and win three Oscars. |
![]() Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket. |
![]() China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence. |
![]() Jonathan Raban, British travel writer and novelist, born. |
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![]() King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta. |
![]() Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes. |
![]() Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England. |
![]() Napoleon Bonaparte defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. |
![]() Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist and essayist, born. |
![]() The accession to the throne of Queen Victoria. |
![]() The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill, during the Irish rebellion of 1798. |
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![]() The coronation of George V, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
![]() Commencement of the Battle of Bannockburn. A significant Scottish victory in the wars of Scottish independence. |
![]() Napoleon's army crossed the River Nieman, beginning his invasion of Russia. |
![]() The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. |
![]() Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, murdered by his former followers. |
![]() General James Wolfe initiates the siege of Quebec. |
![]() Eric Ambler, English novelist and playwright, born. Writer of thrillers, especially with an espionage background. |
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![]() The first iron-pile lighthouse was completed at Minot’s Ledge, Massachusetts. |
![]() The Tunguska event. An explosion in Siberia believed to have been caused by a large meteorite or comet. |
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