Historical Events

Newcastle Propositions

1646 English Parliament sets King Charles I Newcastle Propositions

1678 English troops land in Flanders

Cook Returns to England

1775 Captain James Cook with HMS Resolution safely returns to England at the end of his second voyage

1809 British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren

1825 Malden Island is discovered in the central Pacific by British warship HMS Blonde

1836 First English-language newspaper published in Hawaii

1870 The Republic of Klipdrift is proclaimed by Transvaal President Andries Pretorius after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866, resulting in a flood of treasure hunters; ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics

1874 Boston and Philadelphia are the first baseball team

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