1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island. 1862 – American Civil...
1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu. Magellan STILL gets credit for circumnavigating the world. 1749 – First...
1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia for the first British colony in North America. 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty t...
1507 – Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first used name “America”. 1792 – La Marseillaise is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. You might notice that it’s BEFORE the French ...
1184 BC – The Greeks enter Troy using Biden’s ‘Open Door’ policy the Trojan Horse (traditional date). 1061 – Halley’s Comet sparks English monk to predict country’ll be destroye...