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Fostered by Thomas Becket, in June 1170 the fifteen-year-old Henry is crowned king during his fathers lifetime, but he never actually ruled and is not counted among the monarchs of England
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Fostered by Thomas Becket, in June 1170 the fifteen-year-old Henry is crowned king during his fathers lifetime, but he never actually ruled and is not counted among the monarchs of England
Created Baron Rich of Leez
Montaigne formally retires to his estate to read, reflect and write.
Galileo is thought to co-author a satirical dialogue attacking Aristotelian interpretations of the new star.
Signs the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard to restore Presbyterianism
Signs the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard to restore Presbyterianism
Fails in an attempt to capture Newark from the Royalists
Leads a Derbyshire contingent in a failed Roundhead attempt to capture Newark
Prevents Parliament from capturing Newark
Elected king after the death of Christian IV.
Announces there should be free trade for all neutral vessels
Russia and Prussia conclude the Treaty of Kalisch, creating an alliance against Napoleon.
Russia and Britain sign a convention defining the boundary between Russian America and British possessions in northwestern America.
Spots a headland which he names Cape Ann; the mountain atop the headland is later named Mount Biscoe
A headland is spotted, which Biscoe names Cape Ann; the mountain atop the headland would later be named Mount Biscoe
A headland is spotted, which Biscoe names Cape Ann; the mountain atop the headland would later be named Mount Biscoe
Crushes the rebellion in Vienna
Parliament debates the Rothschild firm's commission for advancing the Suez Canal purchase money.
Congress requires Treasury silver purchases while gold remains the principal redemption standard.
Appointed President of Venezuela
Breaks through to relieve Ladysmith.
Takes part in operations around the siege and relief of Ladysmith.
Rejects terms that do not satisfy the Boer leadership.
Meets Kitchener to discuss possible peace.
Meets Lord Kitchener to discuss possible peace terms.
Offers terms that Boer leaders reject.
Publishes the Bolshevik Party manifesto in Izvestia
Publishes the Bolshevik Party manifesto in Izvestia
Disturbances spread to Moscow
The Duma committee must coexist with the Petrograd Soviet.
Chairs the Soviet Executive Committee during the revolution.
Departs for Tsarskoye Selo
The revolutionary masses seize the city of Moscow, the Tsars Minister's are arrested, the Provisional Committee assumes control of the Army, while the Kronstadt sailors mutiny against their officers
Publishes the Bolshevik Party manifesto in Izvestia
The revolutionary masses seize the city of Moscow, the Tsars Minister's are arrested, the Provisional Committee assumes control of the Army, while the Kronstadt sailors mutiny against their officers
Publishes the Bolshevik Party manifesto in Izvestia
Amanullah takes control in Kabul and defeats Nasrullah's claim to the throne.
The Act returns railroads to private operation and strengthens federal rate regulation.
An anti-bolshevik rebellion breaks out among Kronstadt sailors
An anti-bolshevik rebellion breaks out among Kronstadt sailors
Serves as a military specialist inside the rebel fortress.
Supports sailor demands against Bolshevik political monopoly.
Supports the Petropavlovsk resolution demanding free Soviet elections.
Helps lead sailors protesting against Bolshevik rule.
Joins sailors backing the revolt against Bolshevik authority.
An anti-bolshevik rebellion breaks out among Kronstadt sailors
An anti-bolshevik rebellion breaks out among Kronstadt sailors
Leads the army units against the Kronstadt sailors
Leads the army units against the Kronstadt sailors
Leads the army units against the Kronstadt sailors
Afghanistan signs a friendship treaty with Soviet Russia, securing diplomatic recognition, aid, and transit arrangements.
Britain declares Egypt a sovereign state, but British troops remain
Britain declares Egypt a sovereign state, but British troops remain
Britain declares Egypt a sovereign state, but British troops remain
C. V. Raman and his collaborators observe the inelastic scattering of light now known as the Raman effect.
Less than a month after Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor the Reichstag Fire Decree invokes Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, suspending several constitutional protections on civil rights
Allows Hitler to use emergency powers under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution
Less than a month after Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor the Reichstag Fire Decree invokes Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, suspending several constitutional protections on civil rights. Individual liberty under the Weimer constitution is suspended
Constitutional rights are suspended by Presidential decree. After the Reichstag fire constitutional rights are suspended by Presidential decree
Claims van der Lubbe was a pawn in in Communist Plot to lunch a campaign of terror
Persuaded by Hitler to suspend civil liberties because of a communist threat
Hitler promulgates a decree "for the protection of the People & the State"
Constitutional rights are suspended by Presidential decree
Decides to appoint Hitler as Chancellor to prevent a Communist revolution
Despite the fact that Marinus van der Lubbe claimed to have acted alone in the Reichstag Fire, Hitler, after having obtained his emergency powers, announces that it was the start of a Communist plot to take over Germany
Thousands of Communists are imprisoned in the days following the fire (including leaders of the Communist Party of Germany) on the charge that the Party was preparing to stage a putsch.
Helps implement emergency powers that allow the Nazi Government to suppress communist and socialist organisations.
Signs the Reichstag Fire Decree, suspending civil liberties and permitting detention without normal constitutional protection.
Less than a month after Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor the Reichstag Fire Decree invokes Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, suspending several constitutional protections on civil rights
The Reichstag Fire Decree suspends most civil liberties in Germany and is used by the Nazis to ban publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause.
German Army Units cross the Danube from Rumania & take up positions in Bulgaria
German Army units cross the Danube & take up positions in Bulgaria
German Army Units cross the Danube from Romania & take up positions in Bulgaria
The Bruneval raid brings Wurzburg radar parts back to Britain.
Appointed Colonel General
Appointed Colonel General
Awarded the Oak Leaf to the Knights Cross
British paratroops seize components from a German Wurzburg radar.
A senior design meeting fixes the plutonium bomb approach around a solid core, explosive lenses, electric detonators and a modulated neutron initiator.
A Sino-French Treaty provides for the return of French troops from South East Asia
Takes the oath of allegiance & becomes a British subject
Appointed Minister of Economic Affairs
Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 2nd term
The coalition Government falls on the issue of electoral reform
Appointed Governor General of Canada, 1st Canadian born person to hold this post
Young filmmakers issue the Oberhausen Manifesto declaring the old cinema dead.
Appointed President of Austria
Announces a general election for the 31st of March in order to win a working majority
Pink Floyd sign to EMI Records before recording their debut album
The murder trial of the black militant begins in San Jose
Loses his Commons majority after the February general election produces a hung parliament.
The Liberals win 19.3% of votes cast & 14 MPs & hold the balance of power
Wilson wins is 3rd election out of 4. The Labour Party wins 37.2 percent of votes cast & 301 MPs. No party can form a majority even with the support of the Liberals
The February election produces a hung parliament and leads to a Labour minority government.
Leaves the House of Commons after deciding not to contest the February general election.
Appears on Yesterdays, a compilation drawing from the band's early catalogue.
It is announced that Ronnie Wood has joined the Rolling Stones
Records performances later issued as Bob Dylan at Budokan.
Wins overwhelming Transvaal party support for his policy direction.
Defeats Andries Treurnicht's challenge over constitutional reform.
Appointed President of the National Council
Swedens Prime Minister is assassinated
Heads the Greek government when Greece joins the signing of the Single European Act.
Represents Greek foreign policy as the Single European Act is signed.
Proposes a separate agreement on abolition of medium range nuclear missiles in Europe. Drops his insistence on the curtailment of the US SDI program
Diouf wins re-election amid opposition protests
Appointed President of the National Council
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 2nd term
Confirms British offensive combat has ended.
The hundred-hour ground campaign comes to an end.
Schwarzkopf orders coalition formations to halt offensive movement and hold defensive positions.
Bush orders coalition forces to suspend offensive combat after one hundred hours of ground operations.
The ground campaign ends after Iraqi forces are expelled from Kuwait.
Supports the coalition campaign that liberates Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.
Commands Saudi participation through the conclusion of ground operations.
Orders coalition offensive operations suspended.
Bush suspends offensive combat exactly one hundred hours after the ground campaign begins.
De la Billiere directs British forces to cease offensive operations and consolidate positions.
The constitution of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is adopted and declared that the states territory includes Serb autonomous regions, municipalities, and other Serbian ethnic entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Agrees a provisional cease-fire with the Allies
The assembly adopted the Constitution of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina including districts, municipalities, and regions where Serbs are the majority and a minority because of persecution during World War II
Hun Sen continues as Prime Minister during the United Nations transition
4 Federal Agents are killed searching for illegal guns & arresting David Koresh. 100 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms agents arrive with search & arrest warrants
Orders Serbian security operations as the Kosovo conflict escalates.
Emerges as a political representative of the Kosovo Albanian insurgency.
Giscard dEstang opened the Convention on the Future of Europe as its chairman.
Routine Galileo flight-team operations end after the final playback of stored scientific data, months before the spacecraft's planned Jupiter impact.
New Horizons images clumpy structures in Jupiter's faint rings and improves understanding of ring dynamics.
New Horizons obtains close views of the developing Little Red Spot and measures storm dynamics.
New Horizons uses Jupiter for a gravity assist that shortens its flight time to Pluto.
New Horizons uses Jupiter for a gravity assist and conducts a broad scientific survey of the system.
New Horizons detects lightning at high Jovian latitudes, extending known lightning activity toward the poles.
Romano Prodi submits his resignation after a measure about deploying more troops to Afghanistan and allowing the US to expand a military base in Italy fails in the Senate, he has been in power only nine months. Prodi remains in power, as the Senate narrowly passes a vote of confidence in the Prime Minister's weak Government
Romano Prodi submits his resignation after a measure about deploying more troops to Afghanistan and allowing the US to expand a military base in Italy fails in the Senate, he has been in power only nine months
New Horizons records a giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano and traces its changing structure.
Updates Parliament after British aircraft and ships help evacuate nationals from unrest in Libya.
Bob Dadae becomes Governor-General of Papua New Guinea
Imran Khan announces that Pakistan will release captured Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman as a gesture intended to reduce tensions.
Signs Ukraine's application for membership of the European Union.
Appeals for sanctions, weapons and diplomatic support.
Addresses the United Nations emergency session on Russia's invasion.
Attends the Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit and seeks regional support for defense and the peace formula.
Meets Donald Trump in a tense Oval Office exchange over the war and proposed minerals agreement.
Birth of Henry the Young King, 2nd of 5 sons of Henry II of England & Eleanor of Aquitaine
Michel de Montaigne is born at his family's estate near Bordeaux.
Birth of Alfred Graf von Schlieffen
Birth of Harry "H" Corbett
Birth of Brian Jones, founder and multi-instrumentalist of the Rolling Stones.
Birth of Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones
Birth of Robin Finlayson Cook
Death of Henry the Young King
Death of Cyril Tourneur
Rajendra Prasad dies in Patna after serving as India's first President.
Death of David Byron
Death of Olof Palme
Charles III the Simple is crowned King of the Franks
Fostered by Thomas Becket, in June 1170 the fifteen-year-old Henry is crowned king during his fathers lifetime, but he never actually ruled and is not counted among the monarchs of England
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