1479 BC Battle of Megiddo: Thutmose III defeats the King of Kadesh

755 Abdal-Rahman is proclaimed Emir of Cordoba (755-c. 788), institutes the Umayyad Caliphate

1033 Moslem rioters initiate attacks on the Jews of Fez, Morocco: c. 6000 die over the next few weeks

1213 King John surrenders England and Ireland to Pope Innocent III, who then grants them to him as fiefs of the papacy

1266 Battle of Chesterfield ends England's Second Barons' War

1333 Battle of Ferrara: League of Castebaldo defeats the Papal Army

1464 Battle of Hexham: the Marques of Montague's Yorkists beat the Duke of Somerset's Lancastrians

1525 The Battle of Frankenhausen: German "Peasants' War" ends as nobles slaughter 5,000

1614 Treaty of St. Menehould: ends 1st "League of Princes" rebellion against Louis XIII

1682 Revolt of the Streltsy at Moscow

1718 Brit James Puckle receives a patent for a repeating firearm - the first "machine gun"

1768 Genoa cedes Corsica to France

1796 French troops occupy Milan

1796 Peace of Paris between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Sardinia

1848 King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies stages an absolutist coup

1851 Coronation of Rama IV as King of Thailand (1851-68) - Anna's friend

1862 Battle of Princeton Court House , WVa: Rebs win

1862 Ben Butler issues his famous "Woman Order," and proves every woman in New Orleans is a lady

1864 Battle of New Market, Virginia

1867 Battle of Queretero: The Mexican Republicans defeat the Imperialists, and capture the "Emperor" Maximilian von Hapsburg

1882 Tsar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural areas

1883 Austro-German-Italian military convention

1885 Canadians arrest Louis Riel, insurgent leader

1904 Japanese battleships 'Hatsuse' & 'Yashima' mined & sunk off Port Arthur

1916 Austrians capture Asiago from the Italians

1917 Battle of the Otranto Straits: An Austro-German squadron fails to break the Italo-Anglo-French blockade of the Adriatic

1919 Greeks capture Smyrna, initiating an ultimately disastrous attempt to annex western Anatolia

1932 The May 15th Incident: Unsuccessful coup attempt by ultra-nationalist Japanese officers and civilians

1939 DuPont introduces nylon; within a year Japanese sales of silk to the US fall 30 percent

1940 First successful test flight of an American helicopter, Vought-Sikorsky US-300

1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam as the Dutch Army surrenders

1941 British attack Halifaya Pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya

1942 Gasoline rationing introduced by the US

1943 Cuban sub chaser 'CS-13' (Lt. Mario Ramirez Delgado) sinks 'U-176'.

1944 Eisenhower & Montgomery brief George VI & Churchill on the D-Day plan

1945 Andamans: Royal Navy raids Japanese installations

1948 Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, & Saudi-Arabia attack Israel

1955 Vienna Four-Power Treaty: Wartime allies restore Austria's independence

1957 First British A-bomb explosion, Christmas Island, the Pacific

1958 USSR launches Sputnik III

1960 Sputnik IV launched into Earth orbit

1970 Police fire on war protesters at Jackson State University, Mississippi, 2 die, 11 wounded

1972 George Wallace shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer, Laurel, Md

1972 Ryukyu Is return to Japan after 27 years of US control