On this day.

[csadn]

...absolutely nothing happened.

;)

[Berthier]

But we cant deal with a void so:

1814	Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day)
1814	Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
1809	Papal States annexed by France
1804	Lewis and Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
1803	John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1794	Hard frost in southern New England
1792	24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1787	English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
1756	Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French and Indian War)
1750	Tax revolt in Gorinchem
1744	French army takes Austrian Netherlands
1742	Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
1733	England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
1712	Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
1678	King Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty
1673	Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
1672	Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
1648	Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
1631	Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
1630	Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
1620	1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1579	Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
1544	Scottish earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
1536	Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed
1527	Panfilo de Narvaez departs to explore Florida
1525	Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
884	St. Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
352	Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
218	7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet