1503     Isabella of Portugal (died 1539) 1537     Jane Seymour (died), English wife of Henry VIII of England (born 1508) 1632     Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (died 1723) 1852     Daniel Webster (died), American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (born 1782) 1857     Sheffield F.C., the world’s first football club, is founded in Sheffield,… Continue reading →

1707    The first Parliament of Great Britain meets. 1835    Adlai Stevenson I, American politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (died 1914) 1850    The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. 1915     Woman’s suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote…. Continue reading →

362     The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. 1511     Erasmus Reinhold (born), German astronomer and mathematician (died 1553) 1565    Jean Grolier de Servières (died), French book collector (born 1479) 1659    Georg Ernst Stahl (born), German chemist and physician (died 1734) 1707 – Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal… Continue reading →

1520     Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Strait of Magellan off the tip of South America and north of Tierra del Fuego. 1772     Samuel Taylor Coleridge (born), English poet and philosopher (died 1834) 1797     In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched. 1805     Horatio Nelson (died), 1st Viscount Nelson, English navy officer… Continue reading →

1632     Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St Paul’s Cathedral (died 1723) 1720     Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy. 1803     The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. 1818     The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada-United States border on… Continue reading →