1. In 378, General Siyaj K'ak', a Mayan warlord, conquered Tikal and increased the domain of Teotihuacan.

2. In 1129, the Order of Templars was formally approved at the Council of Troyes.

3. In 1343, Arnost of Pardubice became the first archbishop of Prague (and the last bishop of Prague).

4. In 1501, Martin Luther entered the University of Erfurt at the age of 17.

5. In 1514, Pope Leo X issued a papal bull against slavery.

6. In 1526, Charles V and Francis I signed the Treaty of Madrid, forcing Francis to give up claims to Burgundy, Italy and Flanders.

7. In 1601, church authorities in Rome burned Hebrew books.

8. In 1639, the 1st Connecticut Constitution (Fundamental Orders) was adopted in Hartford, published by Rodger Ludlow.

9. In 1641, the Dutch East India Company conquered the city of Malacca, with 7,000 killed.

10. In 1659, the Portuguese defeated the Spanish in the Battle of Elvas.

11. In 1690, the clarinet was invented in Nuremberg, Germany.

12. In 1699, Massachusetts held a day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches".

13. In 1717, the German mob leader and thief "Sjako" was sentenced to death in Amsterdam.

14. In 1724, Spanish King Philip V abdicated the throne.

15. In 1739, Britain and Spain signed the 2nd Convention of Pardo.

16. In 1746, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", Prince Charles Edward Stuart's army left Glasgow, Scotland (OS = Jan 3).

17. In 1761, in the Third Battle of Panipat, the mostly Muslim Afghani Durrani Empire defeated the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in northern India. An estimated 60,000 - 70,000 were killed in the fighting and about 40,000 Maratha prisoners were massacred afterwards.

18. In 1784, the US Congress of the Confederation ratified the Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ending the Revolutionary War, and forwarded it to Great Britain.

19. In 1785, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his "Dissonanzen Quartett" / "Dissonance Quartet" (Opus 10).

20. In 1794, Dr. Jesse Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performed the 1st successful cesarean section operation in the US on his wife.

21. In 1799, Eli Whitney received a government contract for 10,000 muskets.

22. In 1813, Gideon Hawley became the 1st state school superintendent in the US (NY).

23. In 1814, the King of Denmark ceded Norway to the King of Sweden by the Treaty of Kiel.

24. In 1822, in the Greek War of Independence, Acrocorinth was captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti.

25. In 1858, French Emperor Napoleon III escaped an attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed.

26. In 1863, there was a battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana.

27. In 1864, the Battle of Cosby Creek took place in Tennessee.

28. In 1864, General Sherman began his march to the south.

29. In 1868, the North Carolina Constitutional Convention met in Raleigh.

30. In 1873, "Celluloid" was registered as a trademark by its inventor John Wesley Hyatt.