1452    Ludovico Sforza (born), Italian son of Francesco I Sforza (died 1508) 1549    The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier’s ship reaches Japan. 1663    The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. 1667    Johann Bernoulli (born), Swiss mathematician… Continue reading →

920     Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona. 1309   Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V. 1471    Pope Paul II (died) (born 1417) 1711     Lorenz Christoph Mizler (born), German physician, mathematician, and historian (died 1778) 1745    The first recorded women’s cricket… Continue reading →

306     Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. 315      The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. 864     The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings. 1261    The city of Constantinople is recaptured… Continue reading →

1148    Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. 1487    Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against a ban on foreign beer. 1534    French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France. 1567    Mary, Queen of… Continue reading →

1403   Thomas Percy (died), 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (born 1343) 1632    Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France. 1727    Simon Harcourt (died), 1st Viscount Harcourt, English politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1661) 1773    George Edwards (died), English biologist and ornithologist (born 1693) 1775    Étienne-Louis Malus (born), French… Continue reading →