TODAY IN HISTORY
On This Day in:
1302 – The weaver Peter de Coningk led a massacre of the Flemish oligarchs.
1642 – Montreal, Canada, was founded.
1643 – Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, was granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king’s will.
1652 – In Rhode Island, a law was passed that made slavery illegal in North America. It was the rst law of its kind.
1792 – Russian troops invaded Poland. 1798 – The rst Secretary of the U.S. Navy was appointed. He was Benjamin Stoddert.
1802 – Great Britain declared war on Napoleon’s France.
1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed emperor by the French Senate.
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