Historical Events

1545 Earl of Hertford leads a retaliatory mission against Scotland

1664 Dutch surrender colony of New Netherland, including New York, to 300 English soldiers

1727 A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, many of whom are children

1755 Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army defeats French

1760 French army surrenders Montreal to British commander General Jeffrey Amherst

1831 William IV is crowned King of Great Britain at the age of 64, becoming the oldest person to assume the British throne

1855 British and French troops capture Sevastopol from the Russians, effectively ending the Crimean War

1870 Netherlands and Britain sign "Koelietraktaat," an agreement allowing Indian

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