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{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[421]] &ndash; [[Constantius III]] becomes co–[[Emperor]] of the Western [[Roman Empire]]. * [[1238]] &ndash; [[Mongol Empire|Mongols]] burn the [[Russia]]n city of [[Vladimir]]. * [[1347]] &ndash; End of the [[Byzantine Empire]]'s [[civil war]] of 1341 to 1347. * [[1575]] &ndash; The [[University of Leiden]] in the [[Netherlands]] is founded. * [[1587]] &ndash; [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] is esecuted. * [[1601]] &ndash; [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]] fails in an attempt to take over [[England]] from [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. * [[1676]] &ndash; Tsar [[Alexis of Russia]] dies. His son, [[Feodor III of Russia]], becomes [[Tsar]]. * [[1725]] &ndash; Tsar [[Peter I of Russia]] dies. * [[1807]] &ndash; [[Napoleonic Wars]]: In the [[Battle of Eylau]] in present–day [[Poland]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]'s French troops defeat the [[Russia]]ns under [[General officer|General]] [[Levin August, Count of Bennigsen]]. * [[1817]] &ndash; [[Juan Gregorio de las Heras]] crosses the [[Andes]] with an [[army]] to join [[Jose de San Martin]] in liberating [[Chile]] from [[Spain]]. * [[1837]] &ndash; The [[United States Senate]] chooses [[Richard Mentor Johnson]] to become [[Vice President of the United States]]. * [[1853]] &ndash; The [[Oregon]] [[Territory]] is split up, as the northern part becomes the [[Washington]] [[Territory]]. [[Oregon]] becomes a [[US]] [[State]] in [[1859]], with [[Washington]] doing the same in [[1889]]. * [[1855]] &ndash; The [[Devil's Footprints]] mysteriously appear in [[Devon]]. * [[1865]] &ndash; [[Delaware]] votes to continue with the practice of [[slavery]], though it bans it in [[1901]]. * [[1879]] &ndash; [[Sandford Fleming]] proposes the [[idea]] of [[Universal Standard Time]] at a meeting of the Royal [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Institution]]. * [[1879]] &ndash; [[England]]'s national [[cricket]] team is attacked in a [[riot]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]. * [[1885]] &ndash; The first [[Japan]]ese [[Immigration|immigrants]] to b