On this day in history: 1st July: 69 - Bataafs nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria 70 - Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem 251 - The Battle of Abrittus is won by the Goths against the Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed. 649 - Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I 1097 - 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea 1200 - In China, sunglasses are invented 1233 - Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice 1252 - King Alfonso X el Sabio of Castile/Leon crowned 1253 - Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre 1347 - Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha, daughter of Jan III 1390 - French & Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates 1517 - 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands 1517 - Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal 1535 - Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason 1543 - England & Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich 1569 - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland 1600 - Prince Maurits army occupies Newport Flanders Neth 1656 - 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested) 1674 - Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance 1689 - Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan 1690 - Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army 1690 - Army of Protestant King William III defeats deposed Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland 1745 - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [OS] 1747 - Battle at Lafeld: France beat British/Dutch army 1798 - Napoleons fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt 1810 - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands 1816 - French frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Géricaults Raft of the Medusa 1820 - 1st edition of newspaper Courrier de la Meuse published 1831 - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole 1839 - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey 1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallaces papers on evolution to the Linnean Society. 1862 - Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books 1862 - The Russian State Library is founded. 1863 - Slavery abolished in Suriname & Dutch Antilles 1869 - Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed 1878 - Treaty of Berlin divides Africa for colonization 1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples 1879 - Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower. 1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armys organisation, comes into effect. 1883 - ANWB forms in Utrecht 1890 - Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty 1890 - Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable. 1903 - 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins 1904 - 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis 1910 - Union of South Africa becomes a dominion 1911 - German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco 1913 - Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria 1916 - British court martial (Easter uprising) 1916 - First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men. 1921 - The Communist Party of China is founded. 1925 - Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK 1930 - Great Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq 1931 - Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo) 1933 - German nazi regime declares that married women shouldnt work 1933 - The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. 1936 - Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam 1937 - Britain begins using 999 emergency phone number 1937 - Rev Martin Niemöller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany 1937 - Spanish bishops support Franco & fascists 1940 - Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees 1942 - German troops conquer Sebastopol 1944 - 2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs 1944 - Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank 1944 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel 1944 - General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy 1946 - Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown 1947 - British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office 1949 - Bao Dais Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
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