1. Roman legions at Mainz reject oath of allegiance to Emperor Servias Sulpicius Galba, 69.
1. Following the death of Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus, Helvius Pertinax is appointed Roman emperor, 193.
1. Muhammad XI, Abu Abdullah –Boabdil or el Zogoybi (the unlucky)- surrenders Granada to king Ferdinand II of united Aragon, Castile and Leon, 1492. The fall of the city after a long siege brought a dramatic end to eight centuries of strife between Christians and Moors for control of the Iberian Peninsula.
1. Foundation of the town of Colonia del Sacramento on the north banks of the Plata river, 1680. The Government of Portugal, on the grounds of alleged rights granted by Pope Alexander VI in his bull on the territorial division of South America between the Crowns of Spain and Portugal, issued on April 4, 1493, commanded Field Marshal Manuel A. de Lobo to found this settlement, which was made effective on that date. In the future, the town would become the object of fights between the governments of Spain and Portugal and their successors, the Republic of Argentina and the Empire of Brazil.
1. Paul Revere, American patriot, is born in Boston, Massachussets, 1735.
1. George Canning, minister of King George IV, notifies by letter to the diplomatic corps constituted before the English Court that His Majesty's Government has decided to recognize the independence of the new South American governments, 1825.
1. Britain proclaims sovereignty over the Malvinas-Falkland Isles, 1833.
1. British troops capitulate to Afganis at Kabul, 1842.
1. Harold "Kim" Philby, Soviet spy in the British intelligence, is born in India, 1912.
2. Clive of India captures Calcuta, 1757.
2. Napoleon advances into Syria, 1799.
2. Foundation of the Welfare Society (Sociedad de Beneficencia)in Buenos Aires, 1823. Created by a decree signed by the Governor of the Province, General Martín Rodríguez and by his Government Minister, Bernardino Rivadavia, who was the driving force and champion of this noble institution. After 123 years of generous assistance to the needy, it was intervened in 1946 by the first administration of Juan D. Perón, in order to give " the institution a more suitable tone in line with a modern democratic orientation", placing its assets and works under the official bureaucracy. In 1959, another decree restored the legal capacity of the Welfare Society of the Capital, and returned some of the assets that had been expropriated, although the institution never regained its former importance.
2. Battle of Nashville, 1863.
2. Agreement of surrending of Port Arthur signed by representatives of Japan and Russia, 1905.
2. Manila captured by Japanese forces, 1942.
2. Japanese forces ordered to evacuate Guadalcanal, 1943.
2. American troops land at Saidor, New Guinea, 1944.
3. George Washington defeats the British at Princenton, New Jersey, 1777.
3. Robert Whitehead, engineer and inventor of the naval torpedo, is born in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, 1823.
3. General Juan Gregorio de las Heras, in charge of the Executive Power, issues a Proclamation accepting on behalf of the Argentine Nation the state of war declared by Brazil, 1826.
3. Japanese troops land at Borneo, 1942.
3. William Joyce, "Lord Haw-Haw", Nazi collaborator, is hanged in London, 1946.
4. Austrians defeated by Napoleon at Rivoli, 1797.
4. Japanese air raids on Rabaul, 1942.
4. Chinese and North Koreans capture Seoul and drive UN forces thirty to fifty miles south of 38th Parallel in Korean War, 1951.
5. Austro-Hungarian invasión of Montenegro, 1916.
5. Creation of National Socialist Party in Germany, 1919.
6. Foundation in Peru, in the Rimac valley –in Quechua one who speaks for a temple that existed there with an idol that provided oracles—of the city of the Kings, by Francisco Pizarro, 1535. The name was then replaced by Lima, as a mispronunciation of Rimac.
6. Japanese assume command of more than 15.000 sick and wounded Russians and more than 25.000 able-bodied officers and soldiers following surrender of Port Arthur, 1905.
6. End of the Battle of the Bulge (began 16-12-44), 1945.
7. French forces recapture Calais, 1558.
7. British block French coast, 1807.
8. Captain Mac Bridge, heading a British military expedition, arrives in Egmont Port, in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and establishes a fort, 1766.
8. Departure from Buenos Aires of a scientific expedition led by Colonel José M. Olascoaga, 1881. The purpose was to make a topographic survey of the territory comprised between the Neuquen and Limay rivers and the Andes mountain range. At the return of the expedition, several of its navigated the Black river (río Negro) up to Carmen de Patagones. They returned after fourteen months.
8. Florencio Leiva and Rómulo Giráldez return to Buenos Aires, as the only survivors of the expedition to explore the Pilcomayo river, led by Enrique de Ibarreta, 1899. Harassed by wild Indians and lacking food, Ibarreta sent a party of eight men to ask for help. Of these, only Giráldez and Leiva managed to reach the English Missions, in Villa Concepción, Paraguay. The Argentine rescue expedition, commanded by Captain José Montero, left immediately down the Pilcomayo to search for any survivors.
8. British and French tropos evacuate Gallipoli (completed 09-01), 1916.
8. Announcement of Wilson's Fourteen Points peace programme, 1918.
9. Burial of Nelson at St Paul's Catedral, London, 1806.
9. The surrender of Valencia, Spain, 1812.
10. Michel Ney, Marshal, duc d'Elchingen, prince de la Moscowa, is born in Saarlouis, 1769.
10. Samuel Colt, American gunsmith and inventor, dies in Hartford, Connecticut, 1862.
10. Namuncurá, Indian chief, son of chief Calfucurá, was attacked and defeated by forces of the Argentine Army commanded by Colonel Nicolás Levalle, in his camp of Chiloé, 1877.
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