89 BC Social War: Gn Pompey Strabo captures Asculum from the Italiots
63 BC The Senate declares Catiline and Manlius public enemies
375 Gratian succeeds his father Valentian I as Roman Emperor (375-383)
1183 Naval Battle of Mizushima: Clan Taira defeats a Minamoto attempt to capture Yashima
1494 Charles VIII of France occupies Florence
1511 Treaty of Westminster: Henry VIII of England allies with Ferdinand II of Aragon against France in the Italian Wars
1558 Accession to the throne of England of Queen Elizabeth "Gloriana" (1558-1603)
1747 Anti-impressment riot in Boston
1796 Battle of Arcola, Day 3: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians
1810 Sweden declares war on Britain, but no hostilities actually commence; ends 1812
1812 Battle of Krasnoe: French defeat the Russians
1831 Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Gran Colombia.
1861 Skirmish at Cyprus Bridge, Ky
1863 Confederates under James Longstreet besiege Knoxville, TN (give up Dec 4)
1869 Suez Canal opens
1876 Premiere of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March", in Moscow, at a benefit, to raise money for Serbia in its war with Turkey
1878 Anarchist Giovanni Passannante stabs King Umberto I of Italy, who wounds his attacker in return, using his dress sword, in the last case of a royal engaging in hand-to-hand combat
1885 Battle of the Slivnitza begins: by the 19th King Milan Obrenovic's Serbs are defeated by Prince Alexander Battenberg's Bulgarians, in the last battle commanded by sovereigns in the field
1912 First Balkan War -- Battle of Çatalca: The Turks beat off a Bulgarian attempt to capture Constantinople
1913 Panama Canal opens
1917 First US ASW Victory: Destroyers 'Fanning" (DD-37) & 'Nicholson' (DD-52) sink 'U-58', in the Irish Sea
1917 Lenin announces "temporary" removal of freedom of the press
1938 Italy passes anti-Semitic laws
1988 Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto becomes PM - first woman to lead a modern Muslim state (1988-1990, 1993-1996), murdered 2007
1997 Islamist radicals kill 62 tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Egypt
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