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-* [[392]] - [[Arbogast (general)|Arbogast]] has [[Eugenius]] elected [[Western Roman Emperor]]. 
-* [[476]] - [[Odoacer]] is named ''Rex italiae'' by his troop. 
-* [[565]] - [[St. Columba]] reports seeing a monster in [[Loch Ness]], [[Scotland]]. 
-*[[1138]] - [[Battle of the Standard]] between Scotland and England. 
-*[[1485]] - The [[Battle of Bosworth Field]] death of [[Richard III]] and end of the [[House of Plantagenet]]. 
-*[[1559]] - [[Bartolomé Carranza]], [[Spain|Spanish]] [[archbishop]], is arrested for [[Christian heresy|heresy]]. 
-*[[1639]] - [[Madras]] (now [[Chennai]]), [[India]], is founded by the [[British East India Company]] after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers. 
-*[[1642]] - [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] calls the [[English Parliament]] traitors. Beginning of the [[English Civil War]]. 
-*[[1654]] - [[Jacob Barsimson]] arrives in [[New Amsterdam]]. He is the first known [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[Immigration|immigrant]] to America. 
-*[[1717]] - [[Spain|Spanish]] troops land on [[Sardinia]]. 
-*[[1770]] - [[James Cook]]'s expedition lands on the east coast of [[Australia]]. 
-*[[1775]] - [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] declares the [[Thirteen Colonies|American colonies]] to be in open rebellion. 
-*[[1780]] - [[James Cook]]'s ship ''[[HMS Resolution (Cook)|HMS Resolution]]'' returns to [[England]] (Cook having been killed on [[Hawaii]] during the voyage). 
-*[[1791]] - Beginning of the [[Haiti]]an [[Haitian Revolution|Slave Revolution]] in [[Saint-Domingue]]. 
-*[[1798]] - [[France|French]] troops land in [[Kilcummin]], [[County Mayo]], [[Ireland]] to aid [[Theobald Wolfe Tone|Wolfe Tone's]] [[Society of the United Irishmen|United Irishmen's]] [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Irish Rebellion]]. 
-*[[1827]] - [[José de La Mar]] becomes [[President of Peru]]. 
-*[[1831]] - [[Nat Turner's slave rebellion]] revolt commences just after midnight in [[Southampton, Virginia]], leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred [[African Americans]] who were killed in retaliation for the uprising. 
-*[[1848]] - [[United States|The United States]] annexes [[New Mexico]]. 
-*[[1849]] - First [[Air Raid|air raid]] in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of [[Venice]]. 
-*[[1851]] - The first [[America's Cup]] is won by the [[yacht]] ''[[America (yacht)|America]]''. 
-*[[1875]] - The [[Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875)|Treaty of Saint Petersburg]] between [[Japan]] and [[Russia]] is ratified, providing for the exchange of [[Sakhalin]] for the [[Kuril Islands]]. 
-*[[1864]] - Twelve [[nation]]s sign the First [[Geneva Conventions|Geneva Convention]]. The [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]] is formed. 
-*[[1901]] - [[Cadillac]] Motor Company founded. 
-*[[1902]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] became the first [[President of the United States]] to ride in an automobile. 
-*[[1910]] - [[Japan]] illicitly annexes [[Korea]] with the signing of the [[Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty]]. The name [[Korea]] was abolished and replaced with the ancient name ''[[Joseon]]''. 
*[[1911]] - Theft of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' is discovered. *[[1911]] - Theft of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' is discovered.
*[[1914]] - [[World War I]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Briton|British]] and [[Germany|German]] troops clash for the first time in the war. *[[1914]] - [[World War I]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Briton|British]] and [[Germany|German]] troops clash for the first time in the war.

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  2. Kate Chopin
  3. Karlheinz Stockhausen
  4. Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
  5. Claude Debussy
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  7. Henri Cartier-Bresson
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  2. Huey P. Newton
  3. Nikolaus Lenau
  4. Anders Zorn
  5. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps


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