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{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[44 BC]] &ndash; [[Comet]] Caesar is discovered by [[China|Chinese]] [[astronomer]]s. * [[332]] &ndash; Emperor [[Constantine the Great|Constantine]] announces distributions of [[food]] to citizens in [[Constantinople]]. * [[1152]] &ndash; [[Henry II of England]] marries [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]]. * [[1388]] &ndash; During the [[Battle]] of Buyur Lake, General [[Lan Yu]] leads a Chinese [[army]] forward to crush the [[Mongol]] hordes of [[Toghus Temur]], the Khan of Northern Yuan. * [[1498]] &ndash; [[Vasco da Gama]] reaches [[Calicut]], in southern [[India]]. * [[1499]] &ndash; [[Alonso de Ojeda]] sets sail from [[Cadiz]] on a voyage to present–day [[Venezuela]]. * [[1565]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Malta]] begins as the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] unsuccessfully attempt to conquer [[Malta]]. * [[1631]] &ndash; [[John Winthrop]] becomes the 1st [[Governor]] of [[Massachusetts]]. * [[1652]] &ndash; [[Rhode Island]] passes the first law in [[North America]] that declares [[Slavery]] illegal. * [[1756]] &ndash; The [[Seven Years' War]] begins as [[Great Britain]] declares war on [[France]]. * [[1763]] &ndash; [[Fire]] destroys a large part of [[Montreal]]. * [[1803]] &ndash; [[Napoleonic Wars]]: The [[United Kingdom]] declares war on [[France]]. * [[1804]] &ndash; [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] is proclaimed [[Emperor]] of [[France]] by the French Senate. * [[1811]] &ndash; [[Uruguay]]an forces under [[José Artigas]] defeat Spanish colonial troops in the [[Battle of Las Piedras]]. * [[1812]] &ndash; [[John Bellingham]] is sentenced to death for killing [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] [[Spencer Perceval]]. * [[1843]] &ndash; Disruption in [[Edinburgh]] of the Free Church of [[Scotland]] from the [[Church of Scotland]]. * [[1848]] &ndash; Opening of the first National Assembly of [[Germany]] opens in [[Frankfurt am Main|Frankfurt]]. * [[1860]] &ndash; [[Abraham Lincoln]] wins the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] nomination for [[President of th