1606 1706 1806 1906

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EVENTS
January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31
May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri
December 26 - Shakespeare's King Lear performed in court
The Treaty of Zsitva-Torok ends the Long War between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans in Hungary. The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottoman Empire is abolished.
First Union Flag created.
The Jesuit Joannis Stribingius visits Latvia, describes Latvian mythology

BIRTHS
March 3 - Edmund Waller, English poet (died 1687)
May 23 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
May 25 - Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (died 1649)
June 6 - Pierre Corneille, French author (died 1684)
June 16 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (died 1675)
June 19 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (died 1649)
July 15 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter (died 1669)
William Davenant, English poet and playwright (died 1668)
Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (died 1680)
Thomas Harrison, English puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (died 1682)
Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (died 1658)
Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (died 1688)
Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (died 1687)

1707

EVENTS
March 27 - Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia had abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia
May 23 - Battle of Ramillies
September 7 - The Battle of Turin in the War of Spanish Succession - forces of Austria and Savoy defeat the French
November 5 - The Dublin Gazette publishes its first edition.

BIRTHS
January 7 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
January 17 - Benjamin Franklin, American politician and scientist (d. 1790)
January 28 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
April 24 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1784)
October 18 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)


1807

EVENTS
January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony
January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British
January 19 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope
April 8 - Marriage of Stephanie de Beauharnais to Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich.
June 5 - Louis Bonaparte is appointed as king of Holland by his brother emperor Napoleon.
July 4 - Battle of Maida between England and France in Calabria
August 6 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
October 14 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt
November - Napoleon declares a Continental Blockade against the British

BIRTHS
January 27 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861)
March 12 - Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
March 21 - Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and folk hero (d. 1872)
April 9 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859)
May 20 - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (d. 1873)

1906

EVENTS
January 31 - Earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale).
February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
March 18 - Traian Vuia flies first self-propelled heavier than air aircraft.
April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 18 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000. 225,000-300,000 left homeless. $350 million in damages. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.
June 28-July 6 - Crown Jewels of Ireland stolen during this period.
September 5 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
September 18 - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
October 23 - Aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
October 28 - Creation of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.
November 3 - SOS becomes an international distress signal.
November 22 - Russian Prime Min. Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
December 10 - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
December 26 - The world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang", is released.
December 30 - The All-India Muslim League, a political organization that represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.

UNKNOWN DATES
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis first developed
Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior
Second Geneva Convention

BIRTHS
April 9 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
April 13 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
May 6 - André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
May 29 - T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
June 19 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
June 22 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh American author and aviator (d. 2001)
June 22 - Billy Wilder screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
June 24 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
June 28 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
July 1 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
July 2 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
July 23 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
August 5 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
August 12 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
August 28 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)