1774 English chemist Joseph Priestley announces his discovery of oxygen. 1798 Nelson’s fleet defeats the French at the Battle of Aboukir Bay. 1831 London Bridge is officially opened by King William IV and Queen Adelaide....
1755 Birth of English actress Sarah Siddons. 1810 Birth of American showman Phineas Barnum. 1826 Death of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, English founder of Singapore. 1975 Arthur Ashe becomes the first black men’s singles...
1807 Death of Italian soldier Guiseppe Garibaldi. 1826 Death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of the men responsible for drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776. 1848 The Communist Manifesto is published....
1608 Quebec is founded by French explorer Samuel de Champlain. 1863 The Confederate forces are defeated by Union troops at the Battle of Gettysburg. 1883 Birth of Czech poet and novelist Franz Kafka. 1962...
1644 English Civil War Battle of Marston Moor. 1778 Death of Swiss born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 1865 William Booth founds the Christian Mission in London. The Mission became more commonly known as the...
1860 Death of American pioneer of rubber processing, Charles Goodyear. 1896 Death of American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1916 The Battle of the Somme begins. 1925 Death of French composer Erik Satie. 1937 The...
1893 Birth of Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. 1900 Death of railway engineer John Luther (Casey) Jones. 1904 The St Louis Exhibition opens. 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide. 1967 Muhammad Ali is stripped of...
1442 Birth of English King Edward IV. 1758 Birth of James Monroe, fifth president of the US. 1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state of the Union. 1878 Birth of American actor Lionel Barrymore. 1945...
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is killed in the Phillipines. 1791 Birth of the American inventor Samuel Morse. 1822 Birth of US army general and 18th president of the USA, Ulysses S Grant. 1828 Regent’s Park Zoo...
