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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2016

Today is Friday, May 27, the 149th day of 2016. There are 217 days left in the year.1281 — Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge1328 — French king Philip VI Valois crowned1529 — 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake1660 — Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire1679 — Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK1689 — Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland1703 — St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great1738 — Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov

May 26, 2016

THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2016

Today is Thursday, May 26, the 148th day of 2016. There are 218 days left in the year.1647 — Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony1736 — Battle of Ackia (Louisiana), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat the French1781 — Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia1788 — Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain1790 — Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress1798 — British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara1805 — Lewis & Clark first see Rocky Mountains1805 — Napoleon is crowned king of Italy1824 — Brazil is recognized by U.S.

May 25, 2016

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016

Today is Wednesday, May 25, the 147th day of 2016. There are 219 days left in the year.1522 — Emperor Karel I returns to Spain1632 — Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen1659 — Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector1660 — English King Charles II lands in Dover1720 — "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,0001721 — John Copson becomes America’s 1st insurance agent1784 — Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek1793 — Father Badin is first U.S. Roman Catholic priest ordained1810 — Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day)

May 24, 2016

TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016

Today is Tuesday, May 24, the 146th day of 2016. There are 220 days left in the year.1487 — Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin1626 — Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $241653 — German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria1658 — Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought1660 — English king Charles II visits Netherlands1667 — French troops attack into Southern Netherlands1689 — English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants1697 — English king Willem III travels through northern Europe1726 — People’s revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax

May 23, 2016

MONDAY, MAY 23, 2016

Today is Monday, May 23, the 145th day of 2016. There are 221 days left in the year.1275 — King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews 1420 — Jews of Syria & Austria expelled 1421 — Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled1430 — Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British1493 — King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis1533 — King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void1536 — Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition1544 — German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark 1555 — Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV

May 22, 2016

SATURDAY/SUNDAY, MAY 21-22, 2016

Today is Saturday, May 21, the 143rd day of 2016. There are 223 days left in the year.1216 — French crown prince Louis enters England1420 — Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English1471 — King Edwards IV enters London1502 — Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena1526 — Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology1553 — English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley1602 — Martha’s Vineyard first sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)1674 — General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland1683 — West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname

May 20, 2016

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016

Today is Friday, May 20, the 142nd day of 2016. There are 224 days left in the year.1293 — Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed1303 — Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War1310 — Shoes were made for both right & left feet1347 — Rienzo calls Rome for people’s tribunal1495 — French King Charles VIII leaves Naples1498 — Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India1501 — Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands1521 — Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball1524 — Duke of Albany leaves Scotland1571 — Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League

May 19, 2016

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

Today is Thursday, May 19, the 141st day of 2016. There are 225 days left in the year.1517 — Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht1547 — Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel1568 — English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary1571 — Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines1585 — Spain confisquates English ships1588 — Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England1608 — Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague1635 — France declares war on Spain1643 — Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army1652 — Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen 1662 — Uniformity Act of England goes into effect1749 — George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley

May 18, 2016

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016

Today is Wednesday, May 18, the 140th day of 2016. There are 226 days left in the year.1642 — Montreal, Canada founded1652 — Rhode Island enacts first law declaring slavery illegal1703 — Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne1756 — England declares war on France1794 — Second battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)1803 — Britain declares war on France after General Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland1804 — Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France1828 — Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil1843 — United Free Church of Scotland forms

May 17, 2016

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016

Today is Tuesday, May 17, the 139th day of 2016. There are 227 days left in the year.1630 — Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface1631 — Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg1648 — Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria1672 — Frontenac becomes Governor of New France (Canada)1673 — Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi1678 — King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty1712 — Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as “sovereign of Netherlands”1733 — England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions

May 16, 2016

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