excelhost.blogg.se - Holiday november 11 2015

1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.1778 – Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. 1750 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ( x).

In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used. 1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army.1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

1572 – Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.

1500 – Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.

1215 – The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.

1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside Matilda is crowned in the same day.

1028 – Constantine VIII died, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.

308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.