Events (Wikipedia)
539 BC- The army of Cyrus the Great takes Babylon.
633- King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British.
1113- The city of Oradea is first mentioned under the Latin name Varadinum.
1216 – King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, perhaps near Sutton Bridge.
1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon.
1398 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights.
1492 – Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
1748 – British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1773 – America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia.
1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York City.
1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
1799 – Jeanne Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
1810 – The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1822 – Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.
1823 – Charles Macintosh sells the first raincoat.
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