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A collection of world events between 1492 and 1859, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries. Please refer to the Guide
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GB Sc Gv 1621 Dec 30 English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
?? ?? ?? 1626 Dec 30 Emperor Ferdinand II and Transylvanian monarch Gabriel Bethlen sign the Peace of Pressburg
?? ?? ?? 1665 Dec 30 "Messiah" Sabbatai Zevi departs to Constantinople NE Cf Ad 1666 Dec 30 Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname
NE ?? ?? 1672 Dec 30 Baron Carl von Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden, Netherlands NE Sc Gv 1685 Dec 30 Don Francisco Antonio de Agurto installed as land guardian of S Netherlands GB Me Mu 1689 Dec 30 Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate ’s opera Dido and Aeneas premieres in Chesea
NA Me Mu 1731 Dec 30 First U.S. music concert (Peter Pelham ’s great room in Boston) NE ?? ?? 1794 Dec 30 French troops conquer Grave, Netherlands NA Sc Bd 1802 Dec 30 Francis Lewis , signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies
NA Sc Lc 1809 Dec 30 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston NA Cf 12 1813 Dec 30 British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812
NA Sc Md 1816 Dec 30 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley (nee Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) wed
PA Sc Gw 1817 Dec 30 First coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona) NA Mv Rl 1835 Dec 30 After gold discovery in Georgia, Cherokees forced to move across Mississippi River AU Mv Ex HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin sail from New Zealand to SydneyAS Sc Cl 1836 Dec 30 Lehman Theater in St. Petersburg catches fire, hundreds die EU Me Mu 1844 Dec 30 Opera Stradella , after being rewritten, is produced in Hamburg NA Sc Md 1852 Dec 30 Future US president Rutherford B. Hayes marries Lucy Webb
NA Sc Gv 1853 Dec 30 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico
NA Sc Cm 1854 Dec 30 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, first in U.S., incorporated in New York City
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