1. In 393, Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.

2. In 535, the Eastern Wei Dynasty moved its capital to Ye.

3. In 754, Jianzhen finally arrived in Japan after his sixth attempt at crossing the sea.

4. In 909, Bulgarian Saint John of Rila (Saint Ivan) performs the miracle of the two pies, using two pies to feed the poor.

5. In 971, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han was defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops, and the Southern Han state was forced to submit to the Song Dynasty.

6. In 1265, the 1st English parliament not summoned by the monarch was formally convened.

7. In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor in a coronation ceremony, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China.

8. In 1484, the parliament of English King Richard III opened and passed Titulus Regis.

9. In 1490, the 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar Ha-Gemul was published.

10. In 1546, François Rabelais published the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.

11. In 1552, the 2nd version of the Book of Common Prayer became mandatory in England.

12. In 1556, the Shaanxi earthquake, the deadliest ever recorded, killed 830,000 in Shaanxi Province, China.

13. In 1570, the Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland, was assassinated and civil war broke out.

14. In 1571, Queen Elizabeth I of England opened the Royal Exchange in London.

15. In 1579, the Union of Utrecht was signed, marking the beginning of the Protestant Dutch Republic.

16. In 1631, France and Sweden signed the anti-German Treaty of Barwald.

17. In 1637, Dutch governor Johan Mauritius landed in Pernambuco, Brazil.

18. In 1643, Sir Thomas Fairfax took Leeds for Parliamentarians in the English Civil War.

19. In 1656, French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal published the first of his Lettres Provinciales.

20. In 1668, England, the Netherlands and Sweden signed the Triple Alliance against France.

21. In 1719, Liechtenstein became a sovereign member state of the Holy Roman Empire.

22. In 1779, French astronomer Charles Messier cataloged M56.

23. In 1781, Niccolò Piccinni's opera "Iphigénie en Tauride" was first performed at the Paris Opéra.

24. In 1783, Stendhal, the famous French writer and pioneer of 19th-century critical realism literature, was born in France.

25. In 1789, Georgetown, the 1st US Catholic college, was founded.

26. In 1793, the 2nd partition of Poland between Prussia and Russia took place.

27. In 1795, during the War of the First Coalition, French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns near the port of Den Helder.

28. In 1796, Armand-Gaston Camus became chairman of the Council of 500.

29. In 1812, a 7.8 earthquake shook New Madrid, Missouri.

30. In 1833, Joseph Pease became the first Quaker to be admitted to the UK parliament on his affirmation.

31. In 1845, uniform US election day for president and vice president was authorized.

32. In 1846, Tunisia became the first Arab nation to outlaw slavery in a decree issued by Ahmed I Bey.

33. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the 1st woman in the US to earn a medical degree, graduating from New York's Geneva Medical College.

34. In 1849, the US patent was granted for an envelope-making machine to Jesse K. Park and Cornelius S. Watson.

35. In 1853, John Wilkes Booth was baptized at St. Timothy's Protestant Episcopal Church.

36. In 1855, the 1st bridge over the Mississippi River in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, opened.

37. In 1856, the American sidewheel steamer SS Pacific left Liverpool, England on its final voyage and was lost at sea.

38. In 1859, Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii began an eruption that lasted 300 days.

39. In 1862, Agoston Haraszthy, the 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, California, imported 10,000 grape vine cuttings.

40. In 1870, the Marias massacre occurred, where approximately 200 Piegan Blackfeet Indians were killed by the US army in Montana Territory.

41. In 1879, the US National Archery Association was formed in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

42. In 1889, Daniel Hale Williams founded Provident Hospital in Chicago.

43. In 1894, G. W. Bunbury of Dublin set a shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes.

44. In 1896, Edward MacDowell's 2nd suite in E premiered.

45. In 1897, Elva Zona Heaster was found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

46. In 1899, Emilio Aguinaldo was sworn in as president of the first Philippine Republic.

47. In 1904, the Ålesund fire devastated the Norwegian coastal town of Ålesund.

48. In 1908, the US and Great Britain demanded an end to abuses in the Congo.

49. In 1909, the 1st radio rescue at sea during the CQD distress code was carried out by the British Royal Mail steamship Republic off Nantucket Island.

50. In 1912, the International Opium Convention was signed at The Hague.