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1471 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Tewkesbury - final battle between Lancaster and York sees the Prince of Wales, Edward of Westminster killed...

1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" 1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city. 1915 John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders...

1497 John Cabot's expedition departs Bristol searching for new lands across the Atlantic 1536 Anne Boleyn is arrested and taken to the Tower of London 1783...

1289 - Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli. 1429 Joan of Arc arrives at the siege of Orleans 1707 English and Scottish parliaments accept Act...

0357 – Constantius II visited Rome for the first time. 1686 - The first volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathamatica" was published. 1770 British...

1296 Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England. 1509 - Pope Julius II excommunicated the Italian state of Venice. 1526...

1467 The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appears in  Genazzano, Italy. 1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn 1848 Alfred Russell Wallace...

1507 German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller  1st  to use the name America on his world map Universalis Cosmographia 1684 - A patent was granted for the...

1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date). 1558 - Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis. 1833 -...

215 BC A temple, built on the Capitoline Hill, is dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene 1348 - The...