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1057 The Ostromir Gospel, now the oldest surviving Russian manuscript is recorded completed by its scribe Deacon Grigory [1] 1777 1st ice cream ad…

868 "The Diamond Sutra", the world's oldest surviving and dated printed book is printed in Chinese and made into a scroll 1752 First…

Harrison's Naval Longitude Clock 1765 British Longitude Act awards clockmaker John Harrison £10,000 for the invention of a naval longitude clo…

1754 First newspaper cartoon in America, a divided snake with the words "Join or Die" by Benjamin Franklin, is published in The Pennsyl…

1541 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his expedition are the first Europeans to discover the Mississippi River Andersen's Fairy Tale…

Travels of William of Rubruck 1253 Flemish friar William of Rubruck sets off to convert the Mongols to Christianity, a mission ordered by French k…

1432 Renaissance masterpiece, The Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, is consecrated at St Bavo's Cathedral, Belgium, commissioned by …

Delambre Measures a Metre 1792 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre commissioned to measure the meridian between Dunkerque to Rodez to calculate accurate…

American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1780 The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is founded in Boston, with James Bowdoin, John Adams, and Sam…

1374 BC Solar eclipse lasting 2 minutes 7 seconds is seen at Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers, "On the day of the new moon, in the month of …

Herschel Discovers a Binary Star 1780 William Herschel discovers the first binary star system, Xi Ursae Majoris 1878 US stops minting the 20-c…

1006 Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus 1704 Boston News-Letter publishes first newspaper advertisement 1776 Germ…

1483 Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503 1598 First theater performance in A…

1751 The New York Gazette and Post Boy carries first public report of a cricket match played in America; New York XI v London XI on the site of wha…

1728 82 survivors of the Dutch ship Zeewijk sail into Batavia on a hand-built boat, ten months after being shipwrecked off the western coast of Aus…

1773 British House of Commons passes the Tea Act (later led to the Boston Tea Party) 1904 The Australian Labor Party under Prime Minister Chr…

1879 National Park (later renamed Royal National Park) established south of Sydney, Australia. World's second-oldest national park. 1912 First…

1507 German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is the first to use the name America on his world map "Universalis Cosmographia" 1792 &quo…

1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th D…

1516 Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses "The German Beer Purity Law" (Reinheitsgebot) and adds to it standards for the sale of beer in…