15 October------------------1764 Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.//////1783 The Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).///////1793 Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.//////1815 Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.///////1863 American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.//////1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.//////1878 The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
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