Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell ( May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). There are 239 days remaining. Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. 1835 - James... 6 May Events March 29 - Swedish colonists establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden. April 15 - Shogunate forces defeat the last rebels of Shimabara Rebellion in the fortress of Hara. May 11 - French admiral dEstrees runs his whole fleet aground in Ceylon. Pedro Texeira makes the first ascent of the... 1638- May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). There are 215 days remaining. Events 1416 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic. 1431 - In Rouen, France, 19-year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by... 30 May The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. See 1903. Events Peter the... 1696) was a seventeenth century British politician who served as The First Lord of the Admiralty was a British government position in charge of the Admiralty. The post evolved from that of Lord High Admiral and existed in its own right from 1709 until 1964 when it was subsumed into the position of Secretary of State for Defence. Lords High... First Lord of the Admiralty from Events January 24 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament August 7 - The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes. Battle of... 1679 to Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. October 12 - A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of involving herself in politics. August 31 - Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in... 1681.