1. In 357, Emperor Constantius II visited Rome.

2. In 1140, the Palatine Chapel, commissioned by Roger II, was consecrated on Palm Sunday in Palermo.

3. In 1180, Philip II of France married his first wife, Isabella of Hainault, at Bapaume.

4. In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem, was assassinated in Tyre.

5. In 1202, King Philip II expelled King John of England from France.

6. In 1253, Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounded Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time.

7. In 1376, the English "Good Parliament" began meeting in London.

8. In 1503, the Battle of Cerignola was fought in southern Italy, where Spanish forces defeated the French army.

9. In 1521, the Treaty of Worms was signed, and Emperor Charles named his brother Ferdinand Archduke of the Netherlands - Austria.

10. In 1550, the powers of the Dutch Inquisition were extended.

11. In 1611, the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas was established in the Philippines.

12. In 1635, Virginia governor John Harvey was accused of treason and removed from office.

13. In 1655, English General - at - Sea Robert Blake defeated a North African pirate fleet.

14. In 1770, British captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, landed at Botany Bay in Australia.

15. In 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.

16. In 1789, Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific.

17. In 1796, a cease - fire was reached between Sardinia and Napoleon Bonaparte at Cherasco.

18. In 1804, 31 British ships sailed up the Suriname River, demanding the transition of the colony from the Dutch.

19. In 1818, US President James Monroe proclaimed naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.

20. In 1829, the Dutch parliament accepted new press laws.

21. In 1847, George B. Vashon became the first African - American to enter the New York State bar.

22. In 1848, slavery was abolished in French colonies.

23. In 1855, the first veterinary college in the US was incorporated in Boston.

24. In 1881, Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County Jail in New Mexico.

25. In 1881, French troops were sent into Tunisia.

26. In 1902, the one - billionth minute since the start of January 1, year zero, occurred at 10:40 am.

27. In 1910, Claude Grahame - White made the first night air flight in England.

28. In 1914, 181 people died in a coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia.

29. In 1919, the first jump with a US Army Air Corps (rip - cord type) parachute was made.

30. In 1920, Azerbaijan SSR joined the USSR for the first time.

31. In 1922, WOI in Ames, Iowa, became the country's first licensed educational radio station.

32. In 1924, 119 people died in a coal mine disaster at Benwood, West Virginia.

33. In 1925, Kurdish rebels surrendered to the Turkish army.

34. In 1925, the Netherlands and Great Britain returned to the gold standard.

35. In 1934, the Spanish government of Ricardo Samper formed.

36. In 1934, US President FDR signed the Home Owners Loan Act.

37. In 1935, the Moscow underground railway opened.

38. In 1937, the Berlin Air Show opened. It was one of the largest air shows in the world at that time.

39. In 1937, the first commercial flight across the Pacific was operated by Pan Am.

40. In 1939, Adolf Hitler claimed that the German - Polish non - attack treaty was still in effect.

41. In 1940, Rudolf Höss became the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

42. In 1941, the last British troops in Greece surrendered.

43. In 1945, Benito Mussolini was executed, marking the end of the Italian fascist regime.

44. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and the crew of the "Kon - Tiki" sailed from Peru to Polynesia.

45. In 1949, West Germany was established.

46. In 1952, the Treaty of San Francisco officially went into effect, restoring full sovereignty to Japan.

47. In 1965, the United States sent marines into the Dominican Republic to intervene in the country's civil war.

48. In 1967, Muhammad Ali refused to serve in the military, opposing the Vietnam War.

49. In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred. The radiation leakage in the surrounding area was exposed, and the world began to realize the seriousness of the nuclear disaster.

50. In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same - sex marriage.