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- 153 BC - Roman consuls begin their year in office.
- 45 BC - The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
- 1 - Origin of Christian Era
- 69 - Roman garrison of Mainz uprising
- 89 - Gov Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome
- 313 - Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction
- 404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome
- 414 - King Ataulf of Narbonne marries emperor Honorius sister Galle Placidia
- 630 - The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly.
- 722 - Hofmeier Charles Martel flees from bishop Willibrord
- 990 - Russia adopts Julian calendar
- 1259 - Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.
- 1430 - Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services
- 1438 - Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Hungary
- 1494 - Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia
- 1502 - Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
- 1504 - King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta
- 1515 - Francois, Duke of Angouleme succeeds Louis XII as Francois I of France
- 1515 - Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria
- 1515 - King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.
- 1527 - Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.
- 1573 - Geuzen sets fire to Woudrichem
- 1583 - 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland & Flanders
- 1600 - Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March.
- 1610 - German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610
- 1622 - Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25)
- 1651 - Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland
- 1660 - 1st entry in Samuel Pepys' diary
- 1660 - General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London
- 1660 - Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York
- 1672 - Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris
- 1673 - Regular mail delivery begins between NY & Boston
- 1675 - Don Carlos de Gurrea/Aragon becomes Spanish land guardian of S Neth
- 1689 - Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York
- 1700 - Protestant West-Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar
- 1700 - Russia replaces Byzantines with Julian calendar
- 1700 - Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1707 - John V succeeds his father Pedro II as king of Portugal
- 1739 - J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica
- 1770 - Date of action in the opera "Madeleine"
- 1772 - First traveler's cheques go on sale in London, can be used in 90 European cities
- 1776 - Gen George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag
- 1781 - 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781.
- 1785 - "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue
- 1788 - London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times
- 1788 - Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves
- 1797 - Albany replaces NYC as capital of NY
- 1798 - Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books
- 1800 - Dutch East Indies Company dissolves
- 1801 - The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- 1801 - The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
- 1803 - Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
- 1804 - Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
- 1807 - Curacao is taken by English (until March, 1816)
- 1808 - African Benevolent Society (education) forms
- 1808 - Congress prohibits importation of slaves
- 1808 - Sierra Leone becomes a British colony
- 1809 - Holland Brigade under brig gen Chasse reaches Madrid
- 1845 - The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed.
- 1846 - Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
- 1847 - Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment
- 1847 - Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing
- 1848 - Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
- 1851 - City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line
- 1852 - 1st US public bath opens, in NYC
- 1852 - National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds
- 1852 - Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
- 1853 - 1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in US enters service
- 1854 - Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
- 1858 - Canada begins using decimal currency system
- 1860 - Slavery ends of in Neth Indies
- 1861 - Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City
- 1861 - Pres Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful
- 1862 - 1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000)
- 1862 - Battle of Ft McRee, FL Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
- 1863 - 1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr
- 1863 - Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city
- 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln
- 1863 - Franz Schuberts "Missa Solemnis," premieres in Leipzig
- 1865 - -Apr 26th] Carolinas' campaign
- 1871 - Belgium disbands salt tax
- 1873 - Origin of Japanese Era
- 1874 - New York City annexes the Bronx
- 1876 - The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
- 1877 - England's Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India
- 1879 - John Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig
- 1880 - Building of Panama Canal, begins
- 1881 - Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes
- 1886 - 1st Tournament of Roses (Pasadena Calif)
- 1890 - Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
- 1891 - French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed
- 1891 - King Pakketvaart sails to Neth Indies
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