Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. 1864 - Events. 1864 - January - March. January 21 - Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign starts. February 1 - Danish-Prussian War (Second war of Schleswig) begins. 57.000 Austrian a ...

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1588 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar. 1588 - Events. May 12 - Day of the Barricades in Paris. Duke Henry of Guise seizes the city, forcing King Henry III to flee. May 28 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel (it will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port). July - King Henry III of France capit ...

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2016 (MMXVI) is a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to 5776/7 in the Hebrew Calendar. 2016 - Events. 2016 - April. 4 - Square root day, first in over 7 years. 2016 - May. 9 - Transit of Mercury 2016 - November. 8 - United States Presidential and Congressional elections 2016 - December. Including:

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1892 - Events. 1892 - January-June. January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States. January 14 - Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Next in line is his younger ...

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1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. 1932 - Events. 1932 - January-February. January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with pia ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. 1868 - Events. 1868 - January—April. January 3 - Meiji Emperor declares "Meiji Restoration", his own restoration to full power, against the supporters of the Tokugawa Shogun ...

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1796 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. (see link for calendar) 1796 - Events. January 16 - First Dutch (and general) elections for the National A ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1808 - Events. January 1 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned February - Russia issues an ultimatum to Sweden, to join France, Denmark and Russia and attacks Finland. 26 January - Rum Rebellion: On the twentieth anniversary of the foundation of the colony of New South Wales, disgruntled ...

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1768 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1768 - Events. January 9 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London) Including:

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For the number 1960, see 1960 (number). 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). 1960 - Events. 1960 - January. January - State of emergency is lifted in Kenya - Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over January 1 - Independence of Cameroon January 9-11 - Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 14 - Reserve bank and Commonwealth Bank are created January 21 ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1836 - Events. January - Book by Maria Monk claims that she was sexually exploited in a Canadian convent February 3 - United States Whig Party holds its first convention in Albany, New York. February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas. February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a pat ...

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A device adopted from the Romans by the old chronologers to aid them in finding the day of the week corresponding to any given date, and indirectly to facilitate the adjustment of the "Proprium de Tempore" to the "Proprium Sanctorum" when constructing the ecclesiastical calendar for any year. The Church, on account of its complicated system of movable and immovable feasts (see Christian calendar), has from an early period taken upon itself as a special charge to regulate the measurement of time. To secure uniformity in the observance of feas ...

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Dominical letter, Dominical letter - History, Dominical letter - Calculation, Dominical letter - Practical use for the clergy, Dominical letter - Use for mental calculation

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1960 - January. January - State of emergency is lifted in Kenya - Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over January 1 - Independence of Cameroon January 9-11 - Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 14 - Reserve bank and Commonwealth Bank are created January 21 - Mine collapses at Coalbrook, South Africa - 437 dead January 22 - In France, president Charles de Gaulle fires Jacques Massun, commander-in-chief for the French troops in Algeria January ...

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1864 - January - March. January 21 - Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign starts. February 1 - Danish-Prussian War (Second war of Schleswig) begins. 57.000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross Eider River to Denmark. February 27 - American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. March 1- Alejandro Mon Menéndez takes office as Prime Minister of Spain March 10 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana. March 11 - A reservoir near Sh ...

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1796 - Ongoing events. French Revolution (1789-1799) French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-First Coalition ...

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1836 - Unknown dates. Chartists in Britain demand universal male suffrage. Boers in South Africa begin the Great Trek across the Orange River. Henry R. Campbell builds the first 4-4-0, a steam locomotive type that will soon become the most common on all railroads of the United States. First printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary. Andrew Crosse's electrical experiment seems to produce strange insects; t ...

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1868 - January—April. January 3 - Meiji Emperor declares "Meiji Restoration", his own restoration to full power, against the supporters of the Tokugawa Shogunate. January 6 - Asa Mercer and number of new "Mercer Girls" sail from Massachusetts for West Coast - they arrive in Seattle in May 23 January 10 - Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu declares emperor's declaration "illegal" and attacks Kyoto. Pro-Emperor forces drive his troops away. Shogun surrenders in May. February 13 - The War O ...

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1868, 1868 - Events, 1868 - January—April, 1868 - May—August, 1868 - September—December, 1868 - Unknown dates, 1868 - Births, 1868 - Deaths

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1892 - January-June. January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States. January 14 - Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Next in line is his younger brother Prince George of Wales. January 15 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball. January 20 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played. Februa ...

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1932 - January-February. January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra January 15 - Pierre Laval f ...

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1932, 1932 - Events, 1932 - January-February, 1932 - March-April, 1932 - May-June, 1932 - July-October, 1932 - November-December, 1932 - Unknown dates, 1932 - Births, 1932 - January, 1932 - February-March, 1932 - April-July, 1932 - August-December, 1932 - Unknown dates, 1932 - Deaths, 1932 - Unknown date, 1932 - Nobel Prizes

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1892 - January-March. January 1 - Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (d. 1958) January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-born author (d. 1973) January 14 - Hal Roach, American film and television producer (d. 1992) January 18 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957) January 18 - Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956) January 28 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947) January 31 - Eddie Cantor, American actor, singer (d. 1964 ...

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