48 BC Caesar retreats from Dyracchium

1386 Treaty of Windsor: England & Portugal initiate the world's most enduring alliance

1609 Dutch & Spanish conclude the "Twelve Years' Truce"

1671 Col. Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London

1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: Pontiac invests the British at Ft. Detroit [gives up, Oct 31, 1763]

1812 Napoleon leaves Paris to join his army for the invasion of Russia

1831 Alexis de Tocqueville arrives in the US, at Newport, RI, for a ten-month tour

1846 Mexican War: Battle of Resaca de la Palma

1849 Battle of Palestrina: The Garibaldini defeat the Neapolitans

1861 US Naval Academy moves from Annapolis to Newport, aboard the USS 'Constitution'

1862 Battle of Farmington, Ms

1862 Confederates abandon positions near Ft Pickens, Pensacola

1864Battle of Swift Creek/Drewery's Bluff/Ft Darling, Va

1864 Naval battle of Helgoland: Tegethoff's Austrians defeat the Danes

1898 Havana: US ships & Spanish batteries exchange fire1911Mexican Revolutionaries invest Ciudad Juarez (to May 11)

1912 First Airplane Take Off From a Ship: Lt. Charles R. Sampson, RN, flies a Short Pusher off HMS 'Hibernia' in Weymouth Bay, England

1915 Battle of Artois begins

1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement: Brits & French divide up the Ottoman Empire

1926 Lt Cdr Richard Byrd & CMM Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole

1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Abeba, securing Ethiopia

1942 USS 'Wasp' (CV-7) launches 47 RAF Spitfires to reinforce Malta

1944 Japanese capture Lushan & the Peking-Hankow RR

1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation

1945 German troops in the Channel Islands surrender to the British

1946 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1900-1946) abdicates in favor of his son Umberto II, who is ousted on June 12 in favor of a republic

1949 Accession of Rainier III as Prince of Monaco (1949-2005)

1955 German Federal Republic joins NATO

1964 Khrushchev visits Egypt