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{{calendar}} {{Day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[461]] &ndash; [[Libius Severus]] is declared [[Emperor]] of the Western [[Roman Empire]]. * [[1404]] &ndash; Severe [[flood]]ing occurs in the [[Netherlands]], as 3000 [[hectare]]s of land are washed away, with the flood waters also completely wiping out the towns of Ijzendijke and Hugevliet. * [[1421]] &ndash; A major [[flood]] in the [[Netherlands]] kills between 2,000 and 10,000 people. * [[1493]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed [[Puerto Rico]]). * [[1806]] &ndash; French troops occupy [[Hamburg]] during the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. * [[1816]] &ndash; In [[Poland]], [[University of Warsaw|Warsaw University]] is founded. * [[1819]] &ndash; The [[Museo del Prado]] in [[Madrid]] opens. * [[1847]] &ndash; The second [[Canada|Canadian]] [[railway]] line is opened between [[Montreal]] and Lachine. * [[1850]] &ndash; [[Alfred Tennyson]] is named [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom]] by [[Queen Victoria]]. * [[1863]] &ndash; [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] delivers the [[Gettysburg Address]] at [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]]. * [[1869]] &ndash; The [[Hudson's Bay Company]] sells [[Ruperts Land]] to [[Canada]]. * [[1881]] &ndash; A [[meteorite]] lands southwest of [[Odesa]], present–day [[Ukraine]]. * [[1885]] &ndash; [[Serbo-Bulgarian War]]: [[Bulgaria]]n [[victory]] in the [[Battle of Slivnitsa]] officially unifies the [[Kingdom]] of [[Bulgaria]] and Eastern [[Rumelia]]. * [[1887]] &ndash; In the [[English Channel]], Dutch [[ocean]] [[steam]]er ''W. A. Scholten'' sinks after a collision with a British freighter, killing 132 people. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1911]] &ndash; The [[Doom Bar]] in [[Cornwall]] claims two ships, ''Island Maid'' and ''Angele'', in which the entire [[crew]], except the [[captain]], is killed. * [[1912]] &ndash; The five hundred–year rule of the [[Ottoman Empire]] over [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia