Clara Barton 878 – Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. 1260 – Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing […]

The Dream is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910, one of more than 25 Rousseau paintings with a jungle theme. Wikipedia 1293 – Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed 1303 – Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English and arranges for marriage of English Prince Edward to French Princess Isabella […]

Shawn Nelson steals a tank from a military installation and goes on a rampage in San Diego resulting in a 25-minute police chase.  Click to watch a few minutes of madness. 1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage. 1673 – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River. 1775 […]

5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in midtown 1527 – Florence becomes a republic 1792 – Denmark abolishes slave trade 1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1861 – Kentucky proclaims its neutrality Gordon Cooper in his spacesuit 1862 – Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer developed the internal […]

Three Flags by Jasper Johns, 1958. Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. 1004 – Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Ad extirpanda authorized in limited and defined […]

People march in the Great Beer Parade parade in New York City with Mayor Jimmy Walker leading the way. 1027 – Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France 1607 – First permanent English settlement in the New World, Jamestown, Virginia 1610 – Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII […]

Pope Paul Vl moments after he was shot 609 – Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church 1110 – Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath 1497 – Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) excommunicated Girolamo Savonarola an Italian Dominican friar and an influential contributor to the politics of Florence. He vehemently preached against […]

The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849 and left a few dozen rioters dead and more than one hundred injured. 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations. 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman […]

Patty Hearst 1386 – Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England  remains the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world still in force 1460 – Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings 1502 – Columbus leaves Spain on his fourth and final trip to New World 1785 – British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle […]

Eadweard Muybridge’s study is called Sallie Gardner at a Gallop or  The Horse in Motion. 1521 – Parliament of Worms installs edict against Martin Luther 1541 – Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River 1792 – US establishes military draft 1847 – Scot Robert Thompson patents rubber tyre 1861 – Richmond, Virginia, is named the capital of […]