Historical Events

1596 English, French, and Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Triple Covenant"

Wallis Gives Inaugural Lecture

1649 Parliamentary cryptographer John Wallis gives his inaugural lecture as newly appointed Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University

Tamerlano

1724 George Frideric Handel 's opera "Tamerlano" premieres at the King's Theatre in London

Dalton Explains Color Blindness

1794 John Dalton 's first lecture to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society is titled "Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours," describing his own color blindness, which later becomes known as Daltonism

1863 The Maori Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand, led by General Duncan Cameron, begin their invasion of the Waikato

1888 Scottish vet

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