Good Tuesday Morning 6/20/2017

Wake up! It's 5:47AM!


Here's your historical facts, frickers:

451 Battle of the Catalaunian Plains: Roman and Visigoths forces defeat Attila the Hun in north east France
1212 French & Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo
1214 The University of Oxford receives its charter
1530 German Parliament joins to Augsburg together
1547 Count Philip van Hessen captured
1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1582 Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
1591 Mauritius & Willem van Nassau occupy Devente
1631 The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1633 Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore
1656 Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw
1675 Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom
1756 Black Hole of Calcutta - 146 British soldiers imprisoned in small dungeon in Calcutta, India where most die
1756 Siraj ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes Calcutta from the British
1779 Battle of Stono Ferry fought near Charleston, South Carolina (American Revolutionary War)
1782 Congress approves Great Seal of the United States of America & the bald eagle as its symbol
1787 Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States
1789 Tennis Court Oath (for a new constitution) in France made at Versailles
1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1819 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1825 Coronation of Charles X, the last Bourbon king of France
1826 Siam and Britain sign trade/peace treaty