462 Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.

891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France

1067 Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders

1181 Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III

1255 Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad) founded by Teutonic Knights and named in honor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II

1267 Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem

1355 Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.

1482 Tatars plunder Kiev, Ukraine

1511 Conciliabulum of Pisa opens

1609 Pieter Both sworn in as 1st governor general of Dutch East Indies

1614 Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany

1632 Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses

1638 -4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam

1647 French cardinal Mazarin & Duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan

1695 Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names

1695 French garrison of castle Namur surrenders to the army of the Grand Alliance under the command of King William III of England

1797 2nd National Meeting in Hague

1798 Britain signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India

1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)

1804 Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

1859 R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of a solar flare

1861 Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI

1861 Skirmishes at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV

1862 Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)

1862 Federal tax levied on tobacco

1863 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia

1863 Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas

1863 Rail & ferry connection between San Francisco & Oakland inaugurated

1864 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties

1864 Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA

1866 Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate

1870 Napoleon III captured at Sedan

1873 Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

1874 28th US Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office

1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia

1875 A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband

1878 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)

1881 The Dwyer Brothers' 3-year-old Kentucky Derby winner Hindoo wins his 19th consecutive race, a purse event at Sheepshead Bay; winning streak snapped 6 days later in the September Handicap at Sheepshead

1886 Netherland's New Code of Criminal Law enforced

1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established

1888 Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens

1890 Brooklyn Bridegrooms win 3 MLB games in one day‚ feasting on the Pittsburgh Alleghenys 10 - 9‚ 3 - 2‚ and 8 - 4

1893 Gladstones' Second Home Rule Bill for Ireland passes in the House of Commons but vetoed by The House of Lords by 419 votes to 41

1893 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Scotland's William Auchterlonie wins by 2 shots from amateur Johnny Laidley

1894 A wildfire destroys the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, killing 438 people