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Today In The Past

 

 

Events

 

241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleetbringing the First Punic War to an end.

 

 

 

 

 

418 – Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire

1535 – Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands

1578 – Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion

1624 – England declares war on Spain

1629 – King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later

1661 – French King Louis XIV ends office of premier

1681 – English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania

1789 – Franklin College founded

1791 – John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver

1801 – First census in Great Britain

1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support…

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