1996 In The European Union

	1996 In The European Union Events from the year 1996 in the European Union. Incumbents * President of the European Council Lamberto Dini (Jan – May 1996) Romano Prodi (May – Jun 1996) ** John Bruton (July – Dec 1996) * Commission President ** Jacques Santer * Council Presidency Italy (Jan – Jun 1996) Ireland (July – Dec 1996) Events January * 1 January Italy takes over the Presidency of the European Union. A Customs Union between the EU and Turkey enters into force. * 17 January – The Czech Republic formally applies to join the European Union. * 18 January – Mr Bernhard Friedmann is elected president of the Court of Auditors. * 31 January – The Commission adopts a Green Paper on review of Merger Control Regulation. February * 1 February – The interim agreements with Russia and Ukraine enter into force. * 26 February – A Euro-Mediterranean association agreement is signed with Morocco. March * 1– 2 March – A European Union-Asia summit is held in Bangkok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people 1996 Mount Everest disaster, die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly (sheep), Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur massacre (Australia), Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Gun laws of Australia, Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was Aircraft hijacking, hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1 February Events Pre-1600 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia). 1601–1900 * 1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. * 1713 – The ''Kalabalik'' or ''Skirmish at Bender'' results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized. * 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York. 1814 – Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano. 1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius. 1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States and joins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	8 May Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths. * 589 – Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church. 1360 – Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good).p118 Hersch Lauterpacht, "Volume 20 of International Law Reports, Cambridge University Press, 1957, 1373 – Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her ''Revelations of Divine Love''. 1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	22 April Events Pre-1600 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil. 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. * 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues () east of the Moluccas. 1601–1900 * 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg. 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity. 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription ''In God We Trust'' be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. * 1876 – The first National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	20 April Events Pre-1600 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII. 1601–1900 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament. * 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. * 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). * 1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57). * 1770 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord. 1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration. * 1792 – France declares war against the " King of Hungary a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	19 April Events Pre-1600 * AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria). * 797 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself '' basileus''. 1506 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics. 1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (''German:'' Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms. 1539 – The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed. 1601–1900 1608 – In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2 April Events Pre-1600 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Johns River. 1601–1900 1755 – Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India. 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint. 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna. 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality. 1863 – American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia. * 1865 – American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1 April Events Pre-1600 * 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held. * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. 1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4. 1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the ''Watergeuzen'' capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic. 1601–1900 1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker. 1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin. 1865 – American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	29 March Events Pre-1600 * 845 – Paris is Siege of Paris (845), sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430), captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. 1461 – Battle of Towton: Edward IV of England, Edward of York defeats Margaret of Anjou, Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses. 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General of the Church, Captain General and Gonfalonier of the Church, Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna. 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. 1601–1900 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1632), Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. 179 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	27 March Events Pre-1600 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his ''In Agro Dominico'' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. * 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida. 1601–1900 * 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. 1638 – The first of four destructive Calabrian earthquakes strikes southern Italy. Measuring magnitude 6.8 and assigned a Mercalli intensity of XI, it kills 10,000–30,000 people. 1782 – The Second Rockingham ministry assumes office in Great Britain and begins negotiations to end the American War of Independence. * 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	6 March Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. * 845 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam. * 961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete. 1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus. 1323 – Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed. 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights. 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam. 1601–1900 1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	5 March Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. * 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book '' Safarnama''. 1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands. 1601–1900 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	1996 In The European Union Events from the year 1996 in the European Union. Incumbents * President of the European Council Lamberto Dini (Jan – May 1996) Romano Prodi (May – Jun 1996) ** John Bruton (July – Dec 1996) * Commission President ** Jacques Santer * Council Presidency Italy (Jan – Jun 1996) Ireland (July – Dec 1996) Events January * 1 January Italy takes over the Presidency of the European Union. A Customs Union between the EU and Turkey enters into force. * 17 January – The Czech Republic formally applies to join the European Union. * 18 January – Mr Bernhard Friedmann is elected president of the Court of Auditors. * 31 January – The Commission adopts a Green Paper on review of Merger Control Regulation. February * 1 February – The interim agreements with Russia and Ukraine enter into force. * 26 February – A Euro-Mediterranean association agreement is signed with Morocco. March * 1– 2 March – A European Union-Asia summit is held in Bangkok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people 1996 Mount Everest disaster, die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly (sheep), Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur massacre (Australia), Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Gun laws of Australia, Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was Aircraft hijacking, hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1 February Events Pre-1600 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia). 1601–1900 * 1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. * 1713 – The ''Kalabalik'' or ''Skirmish at Bender'' results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized. * 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York. 1814 – Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano. 1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius. 1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States and joins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	8 May Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths. * 589 – Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church. 1360 – Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good).p118 Hersch Lauterpacht, "Volume 20 of International Law Reports, Cambridge University Press, 1957, 1373 – Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her ''Revelations of Divine Love''. 1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	22 April Events Pre-1600 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil. 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. * 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues () east of the Moluccas. 1601–1900 * 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg. 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity. 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription ''In God We Trust'' be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. * 1876 – The first National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	20 April Events Pre-1600 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII. 1601–1900 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament. * 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. * 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). * 1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57). * 1770 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord. 1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration. * 1792 – France declares war against the " King of Hungary a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	19 April Events Pre-1600 * AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria). * 797 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself '' basileus''. 1506 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics. 1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (''German:'' Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms. 1539 – The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed. 1601–1900 1608 – In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2 April Events Pre-1600 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Johns River. 1601–1900 1755 – Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India. 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint. 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna. 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality. 1863 – American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia. * 1865 – American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1 April Events Pre-1600 * 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held. * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. 1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4. 1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the ''Watergeuzen'' capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic. 1601–1900 1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker. 1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin. 1865 – American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	29 March Events Pre-1600 * 845 – Paris is Siege of Paris (845), sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430), captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. 1461 – Battle of Towton: Edward IV of England, Edward of York defeats Margaret of Anjou, Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses. 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General of the Church, Captain General and Gonfalonier of the Church, Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna. 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. 1601–1900 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1632), Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. 179 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	27 March Events Pre-1600 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his ''In Agro Dominico'' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. * 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida. 1601–1900 * 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. 1638 – The first of four destructive Calabrian earthquakes strikes southern Italy. Measuring magnitude 6.8 and assigned a Mercalli intensity of XI, it kills 10,000–30,000 people. 1782 – The Second Rockingham ministry assumes office in Great Britain and begins negotiations to end the American War of Independence. * 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	6 March Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. * 845 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam. * 961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete. 1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus. 1323 – Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed. 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights. 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam. 1601–1900 1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	5 March Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. * 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book '' Safarnama''. 1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands. 1601–1900 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]