1. In 41 AD, after a night of negotiation, Claudius was accepted as the Roman emperor by the Roman Senate.

2. In 750, in the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeated the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.

3. In 1185, the Battle of Dan - no - Ura, a major sea battle in Japan's Genpei War, took place. The Minamoto clan led by Minamoto no Yoshitsune defeated the Taira clan.

4. In 1348, a strong earthquake struck the Friuli region of Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.

5. In 1362, Muhammad VI, the ruler of Granada, was killed with a lance personally by Peter I of Castile, and his head was sent to Muhammad V.

6. In 1449, the anti - pope Felix V resigned.

7. In 1494, Alfonso II of Naples became king.

8. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller was the first to use the name "America" on his world map "Universalis Cosmographia".

9. In 1515, Francis I of France was crowned.

10. In 1533, Henry VIII of England secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

11. In 1541, Liège was flooded after a heavy downpour.

12. In 1554, São Paulo, Brazil, was founded.

13. In 1573, in Japan, the Battle of Mikatagahara took place. Takeda Shingen defeated Tokugawa Ieyasu.

14. In 1575, Luanda, the capital of Angola, was founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Nova Is.

15. In 1604, Count Maurits' army landed at Cadzand.

16. In 1607, the Battle of Gibraltar took place. The Dutch fleet defeated the Spanish - Portuguese fleet.

17. In 1607, shortly before making landfall in America, Captain Edward Maria Wingfield was named president of the Jamestown governing council.

18. In 1614, the Bank of Amsterdam was established.

19. In 1626, the Battle of Dessau Bridge took place. Albrecht von Wallenstein, at the head of the Holy Roman Empire forces, defeated the Danish attempt led by Ernst von Mansfeld to cross the Elbe River.

20. In 1644, the last Ming emperor, Chongzhen, hanged himself from a tree on Jing Mountain, Beijing, rather than be captured by the forces of Li Zicheng.

21. In 1660, the English convention parliament met and voted to restore Charles II.

22. In 1678, the French troops conquered Ypres.

23. In 1684, a patent was granted for the thimble.

24. In 1704, the Apalachee Massacre took place, resulting in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.

25. In 1707, the Battle of Almansa took place. The Franco - Spanish forces defeated the British and Portuguese.

26. In 1719, Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, regarded as the first English novel.

27. In 1742, Elizabeth of Russia crowned herself empress in the Dormition Cathedral in Moscow.

28. In 1747, Prince Willem V was appointed viceroy of Zealand.

29. In 1755, Moscow State University was established.

30. In 1765, Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands, was founded.

31. In 1791, the British parliament passed the Constitutional Act of 1791 and split the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.

32. In 1792, the London Corresponding Society was founded.

33. In 1792, the guillotine was first used in France to execute highwayman Nicolas Pelletier.

34. In 1829, Charles Fremantle arrived in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern - day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.

35. In 1846, the Thornton Affair took place, triggering the Mexican - American War.

36. In 1849, the governor general of Canada, Lord Elgin, signed the Rebellion Losses Bill, triggering the Montreal Riots.

37. In 1850, Paul Julius Reuter set up a carrier - pigeon service, using 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices between Aachen and Brussels.

38. In 1858, the Fraser River gold rush began in British Columbia.

39. In 1859, the ground was broken for the Suez Canal.

40. In 1861, the Battle of Lavaca took place in Texas. The Union won.

41. In 1862, after the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Union forces under Flag Officer David Farragut requested the surrender of New Orleans.

42. In 1864, the Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas, took place.

43. In 1867, Tokyo opened for foreign trade.

44. In 1874, Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian radio engineer, was born.

45. In 1875, the latest date for measurable snow in NYC occurred.

46. In 1876, the Chicago Cubs played their first NL game and beat Louisville 4 - 0.

47. In 1881, 250,000 Germans petitioned to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany.

48. In 1881, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company.

49. In 1886, Sigmund Freud opened his first neurologist practice in Vienna.

50. In 1886, Li Hongzhang and the French minister in China signed the Sino - French Vietnam Border Trade Treaty in Tianjin.