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{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[1189]] &ndash; [[Philip II of France]] and [[Richard I of England]] begin to assemble troops to wage the [[Third Crusade]]. * [[1276]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent V|Innocent V]] becomes [[Pope]]. * [[1525]] &ndash; The [[Swiss]] [[Anabaptist]] Movement was born when [[Conrad Grebel]], [[Felix Manz]], [[George Blaurock]], and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on [[Neustadt-Gasse]], [[Zürich City|Zürich]], breaking a thousand–year tradition of church–state union. * [[1643]] &ndash; [[Abel Tasman]] discovers [[Tonga]]. * [[1720]] &ndash; [[Sweden]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] sign the [[Treaty of Stockholm (1720)|Treaty of Stockholm]]. * [[1749]] &ndash; The [[Theater|Teatro]] Filarmonico in [[Verona]], northern [[Italy]], is destroyed by [[fire]]. It is rebuilt in [[1754]]. * [[1789]] &ndash; The first American novel, ''The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth'', is printed in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. * [[1793]] &ndash; After being found guilty for [[treason]] by the [[French Convention]], [[Louis XVI of France]] is [[guillotine]]d. * [[1793]] &ndash; [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland]]. * [[1840]] &ndash; [[Adelie Land]] in [[Antarctica]] is discovered. * [[1853]] &ndash; [[Russell L. Hawes]] patents the [[envelope]]–folding machine. * [[1854]] &ndash; [[Iron]] [[clipper]] RMS ''Tayleur'' of the [[White Star Line]] sinks in the [[Irish Sea]] during its first voyage, killing 362 people. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Jefferson Davis]] resigns from the [[United States Senate]]. * [[1864]] &ndash; The [[Tauranga Campaign]] starts during the [[Maori Wars]]. * [[1887]] &ndash; The [[Amateur Athletic Union]] (AAU) is formed. * [[1899]] &ndash; [[Opel|Opel Motors]] opens for business. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1904]] &ndash; Oprera ''[[Jenůfa]]'' by [[Leoš Janáček]] first performed. * [[1908]] &ndash; [[New York City]] passes a law, the [[Sullivan Ordinance]], making it i