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{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[97]] &ndash; Roman Emperor [[Nerva]] adopts the then–44–year–old [[Trajan]]. * [[710]] &ndash; [[Saracen]] invasion of [[Sardinia]]. * [[939]] &ndash; [[Edmund I of England]] becomes king. * [[1275]] &ndash; Traditional founding of [[Amsterdam]]. * [[1524]] &ndash; [[Italian Wars]]: [[France|French]] troops lay [[siege]] to [[Pavia]]. * [[1553]] &ndash; Condemned as a heretic, [[Michael Servetus]] is burned at the stake just outside [[Geneva]]. * [[1644]] &ndash; The [[Second Battle of Newbury]] takes place in the [[English Civil War]]. * [[1662]] &ndash; [[Charles II of England]] sells [[Dunkirk]] to [[France]]. * [[1682]] &ndash; [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] is founded. * [[1795]] &ndash; The [[United States]] and [[Spain]] sign the [[Treaty of Madrid]], establishing boundaries between the US and the Spanish colonies. * [[1806]] &ndash; The French Army enters [[Berlin]]. * [[1810]] &ndash; The [[US]] annexes the former Spanish colony of West [[Florida]]. * [[1827]] &ndash; [[Vincenzo Bellini]]'s third [[opera]], ''Il pirata'', has its first performance at La Scala, [[Milan]]. * [[1838]] &ndash; [[Governor]] of [[Missouri]] [[Lilburn Boggs]] issues an extermination order to [[Mormonism|Mormons]] in the state, which would force them either to leave or be killed. * [[1870]] &ndash; [[Franco-Prussian War]]: Marshal [[Francois Achille Bazaine]] surrenders to [[Prussia]]n forces at the conclusion to the [[Siege of Metz]]. * [[1892]] &ndash; British [[passenger]] steamer ''Roumania'' crashes into [[Rock (geology)|rocks]] off Peniche, [[Portugal]]. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1904]] &ndash; [[New York City]]'s first underground [[Rapid transit|Subway]] opens. * [[1907]] &ndash; Cernova massacre: 15 people are killed in the [[Hungary|Hungarian]] half of [[Austria-Hungary]] when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a [[church]] for its [[consecration]]. * [[1914]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: British super dreadnought battle[[ship]] HMS ''Audacious'' is