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{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1138]] &ndash; [[Ly Anh Tong]] becomes [[Emperor]] of [[Vietnam]] at the age of two years, starting a 37–year reign. * [[1530]] &ndash; The St. Felix's [[Flood]] destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the [[Netherlands]]. * [[1605]] &ndash; The [[Gunpowder Plot]] to blow up the [[England|English]] [[Parliament]] fails. [[Guy Fawkes]] and his fellow conspirators are arrested, ending the plot led by [[Robert Catesby]]. * [[1688]] &ndash; [[Glorious Revolution]] begins: [[William III of England|William of Orange]] lands at [[Brixham]]. [[James II of England]] is prevented from meeting him in battle because many of his officers and men desert to the other side. * [[1743]] &ndash; Coordinated [[Science|scientific]] observations of the [[planet]] [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] are organised by [[Joseph-Nicolas Delisle]]. * [[1757]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Frederick the Great]] defeats the allied armies of [[France]] and the [[Holy Roman Empire]] at the [[Battle of Rossbach]]. * [[1811]] &ndash; [[Priest]] [[José Matías Delgado]] begins [[El Salvador]]'s [[1811]] independence campaign. * [[1831]] &ndash; [[Nat Turner]], American [[slave]] rebellion leader, is [[Trial|tried]], convicted and sentenced to death in [[Virginia]]. * [[1838]] &ndash; The Federal Republic of [[Central America]] begins to dissolve when [[Nicaragua]] breaks away. * [[1844]] &ndash; [[James K. Polk]] is elected [[President of the United States]]. * [[1854]] &ndash; [[Crimean War]]: The [[Battle of Inkerman]] takes place. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Abraham Lincoln]] removes [[George B. McClellan]] as commander of the [[United States|Union]] army for the second, and final, time. * [[1872]] &ndash; [[Susan B. Anthony]] defies the ban on female suffrage (voting), by voting in the [[United States]] Presidential election; In the election, [[Ulysses S. Grant]] is elected to a second term. * [[1895]] &ndash; [[George B. Selden]] is granted the first [[US]] [[patent]] for an [[a