1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice. 1733 – Maria Theresa crowned Queen of Bohemia in Prague 1835 – Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile 1908 – Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield He was born in Kentucky...
1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England’s Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. 1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac’s War against British forces. 1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression. 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in...
Great Western Railway 4-4-0 No. 3440, (originally No. 3717), "City of Truro".
558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt. 1664 – Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles. 1697 – Stockholm’s royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced by the current Royal Palace)....
Lusitania arriving in New York. During her eight-year service, she made a total of 202 crossings on the Cunard Line's Liverpool-New York Route. On this day in 1915 she was sunk by a German submarine and lies approximately 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse in 300 ft of water.
1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire 1494 – On his second voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica 1780 – American Academy of Arts & Sciences forms in Boston 1855 – NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration 1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of...
Hand-colored photo of Lower Manhattan showing the Battery, piers on the Hudson, Castle Clinton, the Singer Building, the Woolworth Building, 90 West Street, 17 Battery Place, the original Pier A ( before the clocktower commemorating WWl veterans), the elevated railroad ( which became the #1 subway line) and the three bridges in 1911.
1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw. 1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to...
1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. 1715 – A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy. 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city. 1830 – The Canterbury...
