Categories: Baronies Events February 2 - Battle of Mortimers Cross - Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales. ... Events May 15 - Charles VIII of Sweden who had served three terms as King of Sweden dies. ... Events January 20 - Christian II becomes King of Denmark and Norway. ... Events Treaty of Nagyvarad. ... Events Earliest English slave-trading expedition under John Hawkins. ... Events January - articles of Warsaw Confederation signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland. ... Events January 7 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I April 13 - Edict of Nantes - Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. ... Events April 14 - Battle of Mookerheyde. ... Events January 14 - Connecticuts first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted. ... Events April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. ... Events January 20 - Poland cedes Kyiv, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a Central European power. ... Events Louis XIV of France passed the Code Noir, allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies. ... Events February 13 - Massacre of Glencoe March 1 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of three women with witchcraft. ... Events England, France, Munster and Cologne invade the United Provinces, therefore this name is know as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands. ... Events January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie cock sucker occupies Stirling April 16 - Battle of Culloden bitch brings an end to the Jacobite Risings October 22 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton University in 1896) October 28 - An earthquake demolishes [[Lima, Peru asshole |Lima]] and Callao, in... 1779 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... Events George Friderich Handel becomes a British subject. ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...