1478 Novgorod submits to Tsar Ivan III

1526 Treaty of Madrid: Francis I of France pretends to make peace with the Emperor Charles V

1659 Battle of Elvas: Portuguese defeat Spanish

1724 King Philip V abdicates the Spanish throne (1700-Jan 14, 1724), to resume it when his son dies (Aug 31, 1724-1746)

1784 Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War

1797 Battle of Rivoli Veronese: Massena's French defeat the Austrians.

1799 The Neapolitan Royal Family flees by sea to Sicily before invading French armies

1813 US Frigate 'Chesapeake' captures British brig 'Hero'

1814 Treaty of Kiel: Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania

1815 Four British ships capture the USS 'President', and discover the secret of building a 44-gun single-deck frigate that doesn't "hog" and break under its own weight.

1847 Uprising in New Mexico against US occupation

1858 Italian nationalists led by Felice Orsini attempt to assassinate Napoleon III with a bomb outside the Paris Opera [See this date, 1859]

1859 France & Piedmont conclude an anti-Austrian alliance

1859 Lt. James Brooke, USN, claims French Frigate Shoal for the US

1863 US Navy GO No 4: The Emancipation Proclamation is announced to the fleet

1864 Battle of Cosby Creek, Tn

1867 Alfred Nobel makes the first public demonstration of dynamite

1872 Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia celebrates his 21st birthday by hunting buffalo with Phil Sheridan, George Custer, & Buffalo Bill

1913 First Balkan War-Battle of Bizani: The Greeks defeat the Turks

1919 Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde of Luxembourg (1912-1919) abdicates, having collaborated with the occupying Germans, leaving the throne to her sister Charlotte, who reigns until 1964, when she retires

1929 Abdication of Emir/Shah/King Amanullah of Afghanistan (1919-1929)

1941 Belgian government-in-exile BBC broadcaster Victor de Laveleye proposes the use of "V for Victory" as a sign of the Resistance, which is shortly popularized by Winston Churchill

1942 Allied Arcadia Conference in Washington ends.

1942 Bataan: Heavy fighting

1942 Borneo: Japanese troops land at Balikpapan

1942 Malaya: Japanese capture Malacca.

1943 Casablanca Conference: FDR, Churchill, & Chaing begin ten days of meetings

1943 Guadalcanal: "Tokyo Express" begins evacuation of Japanese forces

1945 Burma: Japanese counterattack British on the Irrawaddy River.

1953 Marshal Tito becomes president of Yugoslavia (1953-1980)

1967 NY Times reports the Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments on the public

1969 Fire aboard USS 'Enterprise' (CVN-65), off Vietnam, 28 die, 344 injured

1972 Accession of Queen Margaret II of Denmark, the first queen regnant in Denmark since 1412