Year 1401 » Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
Year 1603 » James I of England known as James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England, upon the death of Elizabeth I of England or Elizabeth I.
Year 1603 » Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
Year 1663 » The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in Restoration (England) or restoring Charles II of England to the throne.
Year 1707 » The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Year 1720 » Count Frederick I of Sweden known as Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden called Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February. She had been wanting to
Year 1721 » Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt named Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
Year 1731 » 'Naturalization of Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis named Hieronimus de Salis' Parliamentary Act is passed.
Year 1765 » American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house Armed Forces of the United Kingdom known as British troops.
Year 1829 » Catholic Emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
Year 1832 » In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
Year 1837 » Canada gives Black Canadians e.g African Canadian men the right to vote.
Year 1860 » Sakuradamon incident (1860) e.g Sakuradamon incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
Year 1878 » The British frigate HMS Eurydice 1843 6 sinks, killing more than 300.
Year 1882 » Robert Koch announces the discovery of 'Mycobacterium tuberculosis', the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
Year 1885 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo (Zhennan Pass) known as Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.
Year 1896 » Alexander Stepanovich Popov named A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
Year 1900 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "New York City Subway named Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Year 1907 » The first issue of the Georgia (country) called Georgian Bolshevik newspaper 'Dro (Georgian newspaper) named Dro' is published.
Year 1922 » Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Ireland known as Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and McMahon murders called shoot all eight males inside.
Year 1927 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
Year 1934 » United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing Commonwealth of the Philippines named commonwealth.
Year 1944 » Ardeatine massacre: Nazi Germany known as German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
Year 1944 » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie 'The Great Escape (film) e.g The Great Escape', 76 Allies of World War II e.g Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
Year 1946 » The British 1946 Cabinet Mission to India Cabinet Mission, consisting of Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough A. V. Alexander, arrives in
Year 1959 » The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keïta.
Year 1965 » NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
Year 1972 » The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
Year 1973 » Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
Year 1976 » In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the 'National Reorganization Process'. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth an
Year 1980 » Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass (Catholic Church) known as Mass in San Salvador.
Year 1986 » The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
Year 1989 » Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the 'Exxon Valdez' spills convert 240000 oilbbl m3 of petroleum after running aground.
Year 1998 » Westside Middle School massacre known as Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
Year 1998 » A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
Year 1999 » Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 39 people.
Year 1999 » Kosovo War: NATO commences 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia e.g aerial bombardment against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
Year 2000 » S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
Year 2003 » The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
Year 2008 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its Bhutanese general election, 2008 named first ever general election.