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{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[3761 BC]] &ndash; The first day of the [[Hebrew Calendar]]. * [[394]] &ndash; [[Battle of Frigidus]]: The [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Roman Emperor]] [[Theodosius I]] defeats and kills the [[paganism|pagan]] usurper [[Eugenius]] and his [[Franks|Frankish]] general [[Arbogast]]. * [[1492]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] leaves [[La Gomera]] in the [[Canary Islands]], his last land-stop on the way of his voyage that takes him to the [[Caribbean]]. * [[1522]] &ndash; The ''Victoria'', one of the surviving ships of [[Ferdinand Magellan]]'s expedition, returns to [[San Lucar de Barrameda]] in [[Spain]], becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world, with captain [[Juan Sebastian de Elcano]]. * [[1620]] &ndash; The [[Pilgrims]] sail from [[Plymouth, Devon|Plymouth]], [[England]], on the [[Mayflower]] to settle in [[North America]]. * [[1628]] &ndash; [[Puritan]]s settle [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]] which will later become part of [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]. * [[1634]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: In the [[Battle of Nordlingen]], the [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] [[Empire|imperial]] army defeats the [[Protestantism|Protestant]] armies of [[Sweden]] and [[Germany]]. * [[1689]] &ndash; [[Empire|Imperial]] [[China]] and [[Imperial Russia|Russia]] agree on their border, which runs along the [[Amur]] [[River]]. * [[1776]] &ndash; A tropical [[storm]] strikes the [[Caribbean]] island of [[Guadeloupe]], killing 6,000 people. * [[1781]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Groton Heights]] takes place with the result of a British minor victory. * [[1803]] &ndash; British scientist [[John Dalton]] begins using [[symbol]]s to represent the [[atom]]s of different [[element]]s. * [[1839]] &ndash; [[Polynesia]]n [[atoll]] Ahe in the [[Tuamoto]] [[Archipelago]], in the [[Pacific Ocean]], is discovered and [[cartography|mapped]] by [[US]] naval officer [[Charles Wilkes]]. * [[1847]] &ndash; [[Henry David Thoreau]] leaves [[Walden Pond]] and moves in with [[Ralph Waldo Emerso