1259 Battle of Maes Maidog/Moydog: Earl of Warwick defeats Madog ap Llewellyn

1279 Battle of Aizkraukle: The Lithuanians defeat the Livonian Knights

1432 Treaty of Rennes: peace between France and Brittany

1626 Treaty of Monzon/Monjon: France & Spain confirm the independence of the Grisons

1766 France cedes Louisiana to Spain

1770 The Boston Massacre

1793 Austrians liberate Liege from the French

1795 Treaty of Basel: France and Prussia conclude peace

1811 Battle of Barossa/Chiclana: Anglo-Spanish forces attempting to break the siege of Cadiz are ambushed by French troops, but beat them off

1821 Veteran James Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th president, having to postpone the ceremony by one day to avoid the Sabbath

1824 First Anglo-Burmese War begins

1842 A Mexican expedition occupies San Antonio, retiring unmolested several days later

1860 Parma, Tuscany, Modena, & the Romagna vote to join the Kingdom of Sardinia

1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, TN

1906 First Battle of Bud Dajo: U.S. troops inflict a devastating defeat on the Moros of Jolo, the Philippines

1912 First wartime use of airships: Italian reconnaissance flight west of Tripoli

1912 Spanish cruiser 'Principe de Asturias' sinks in the Med, c. 500 die

1916 Fifth Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Mar 15)

1933 Nazi Party wins a plurality in parliamentary election (43.9%)

1936 Maiden flight of the prototype Supermarine Spitfire

1942 Burma: British appoint Sir Harold Alexander C-in-C

1942 Japanese First Air Fleet raids Tijilatjap.

1942 Japanese troops occupy Batavia (Jakarta), Neth Indies

1942 New Guinea: Japanese troops land at Salamaua.

1942 World premiere of Shostakovich's "Leningrad Symphony," in Kuibyshev

1943 Anti-fascist demonstrations in Italy1943 RAF bombs Essen

1943 Solomons: U.S. DDs shell Japanese at Vila and Munda

1943 USS 'Grampus' (SS-207) is probably sunk in Blackett Strait, Solomon Islands

1944 Admiralty Is: U.S. Navy ships bombard Manus

1945 Allies bomb The Hague, Netherlands

1945 US VII Corps captures Cologne

1946 Winston Churchill makes his "Iron Curtain" speech, Fulton, Mo

1960 Elvis is honorably discharged from the US Army

2003 Palestinian suicide bombing of a bus in Haifa, 17 die