Historical Events

First Battle of Newbury

1643 First Battle of Newbury (English civil war): King Charles I 's forces beaten by a parliamentary army led by the Earl of Essex and Philip Stapleton

1664 Maryland passes the first anti-amalgamation law to stop the intermarriage of English women and Black men

Bonnie Prince Charlie Flees

1746 Scotland's Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland

Battle of Paoli

1777 Battle of Paoli: British forces under Major General Charles Grey attack Brigadier General Anthony Wayne 's encampment, and claims that the British gave no quarter lead to the engagement becoming known as the "Paoli Massacre"

1793 British troops under Major-General Williamson land on French Haiti

Darwin Arrives in Buenos Aires

1833 Charles Darwin arrives

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