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In the face of widespread opposition in the American colonies, Parliament enacts the http://www.history.com/topics/stamp-act - Stamp Act , a taxation measure designed to raise revenue for British military operations in America.

Defense of the American colonies in the French and Indian War (1754-63) and Pontiac's Rebellion (1763-64) were costly affairs for Great Britain, and Prime Minister George Grenville hoped to recover some of these costs by taxing the colonists. In 1764, the Sugar Act was enacted, putting a high duty on refined sugar. Although resented, the Sugar Act tax was hidden in the cost of import duties, and most colonists accepted it. The Stamp Act, however, was a direct tax on the colonists and led to an uproar in America over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation.

Passed without debate by Parliament in March 1765, the Stamp Act was designed to force colonists to use special stamped paper in the printing of newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and playing cards, and to have a stamp embossed on all commercial and legal papers. The stamp itself displayed an image of a Tudor rose framed by the word "America" and the French phrase Honi soit qui mal y pense—"Shame to him who thinks evil of it."

Outrage was immediate. http://www.history.com/topics/massachusetts - Massachusetts politician Samuel Adams organized the secret Sons of Liberty organization to plan protests against the measure, and the http://www.history.com/topics/virginia - Virginia legislature and other colonial assemblies passed resolutions opposing the act. In October, nine colonies sent representatives to http://www.history.com/topics/new-york - New York to attend a Stamp Act Congress, where resolutions of "rights and grievances" were framed and sent to Parliament and King George III. Despite this opposition, the Stamp Act was enacted on November 1, 1765...." http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/parliament-enacts-the-stamp-act - http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/parliament-enacts-the-stamp-act

6 Nov.

1528 : Cabeza de Vaca discovers Texas

1860 : Abraham Lincoln elected president

1861 : Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy

1906 : Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama

1917 : Bolsheviks revolt in Russia

7 Nov.

1861 : North and South clash at the Battle of Belmont

1885 : Canada's transcontinental railway completed

1916 : Jeannette Rankin becomes first U.S. congresswoman

1944 : FDR reelected a record third time

With the demise of the  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_dynasty - Stuart dynasty  in 1714, her descendants, the  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Hanover - Hanoverian  rulers, succeeded to the  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_throne - British throne ...."

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8 Nov.

1775: Washington seeks to make militias into a military.

1793: Louvre Museum opens

1864: President Lincoln is re-elected

1887: Doc Holliday dies of tuberculosis

1923: Beer Hall Putsch begins

9 Nov.

1780 : Sumter evades Wemyss in South Carolina

1862 : Burnside assumes command of the Union Army of the Potomac

1875 : Followers of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse identified as hostile

1989 : East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

10 Nov.

1775 : Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps

1865 : Confederate prison camp commander Henry Wirz is executed

1903 : Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper

1928 : Hirohito crowned in Japan

1928 : Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front

12 Nov.

1775 : Abigail Adams leads rhetorical charge against Britain

1799 : First meteor shower on record

1864 : The destruction of Atlanta begins

1867 : U.S. reconsiders war with Plains Indians

1944 : Brits sink the battleship Tirpitz

1948 : Japanese war criminals sentenced

1980 : Voyager I flies near Saturn

14 Nov.

1776 : Benjamin Franklin takes sides

1851: Moby-Dick published

1862 : Lincoln approves Burnside's plan to capture Richmond

1882 : Franklin Leslie kills Billy "The Kid" Claiborne

1 Dec.

1135 Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew Stephen of Bloise.

1581 Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured.

1861 The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000. 

1862 President Abraham Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress.

1863 Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy, is released from prison in Washington.

1881 Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz.

1900 Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin.

1905 Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace.

1908 The Italian Parliament debates the future of the Triple Alliance and asks for compensation for Austria's action in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

1909 President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua's Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries.

1916 King Constantine of Greece refuses to surrender to the Allies.

1918 An American army of occupation enters Germany.

8 Dec.

1660 The first Shakespearian actress to appear on an English stage (she is believed to be a Ms. Norris) makes her debut as Desdemona.

1861 CSS Sumter captures the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the Northern whaling industry.

1863 Union General William Averell's cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia.

1914 The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands.

1920 President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva.

1932 Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs in China.

1941 Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore.

1943 U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands.

1944 The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.

1948 The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea.

9 Dec.

536      Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius takes Rome.

1809         William Barret Travis, commander of the Texas troops at the battle of the Alamo.

1861 The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War.

1863 Major General John G. Foster replaces Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio.

1867 The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver.

1872 P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of Louisiana.

1900 The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger's pleas for aid in South Africa against the British

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1908 A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13.

1917 The new Finnish Republic demands the withdrawal of Russian troops.

1940 The British army seizes 1,000 Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt.

1948 The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan.

1949 The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem.

1950 President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China.

1950 Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II.

15 Dec.

1862 Nathan B. Forrest crosses the Tennessee River at Clifton with 2,500 men to raid the communications around Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1862 In New Orleans, Louisiana, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler turns his command over to Nathaniel Banks. The citizens of New Orleans hold farewell parties for Butler, "The Beast," but only after he leaves.

1864 The battle at Nashville begins.

1890 As U.S. Army soldiers attempt to arrest Sitting Bull at his cabin in Standing Rock, South Dakota, shooting breaks out and Lt. Bullhead shoots the great Sioux leader.

1920 China wins a place on the League Council; Austria is admitted.

1924 The Soviet Union warns the United States against repeated entry of ships into Soviet territorial waters.

1938 Washington sends its fourth note to Berlin demanding amnesty for Jews. 

1944 The battle for Luzon begins. 

1946 Vietnam leader Ho Chi Minh sends a note to the new French Premier, Leon Blum, asking for peace talks.

1961 Adolf Eichmann, the former German Gestapo official accused of a major role in the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, is sentenced by a Jerusalem court to be hanged. 

1965 The United States drops 12 tons of bombs on an industrial center near Haiphong Harbor, North Vietnam.

19 Dec.

1154 Henry II is crowned king of England.

1562 The French Wars of Religion between the Huguenots and the Catholics begins with the Battle of Dreux.

1793 French troops recapture Toulon from the British.

1862 Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest begins tearing up the railroads in Union generals Grant and Rosecrans rear.

1900 The French Parliament votes amnesty for everyone involved in the Dreyfus Affair.

1909 American socialist women denounce suffrage as a movement of the middle class.

1959 Reputed to be the last civil war veteran, Walter Williams, dies at 117 in Houston.

And today in my 24th Wedding Anniversary. :)

28 Dec.

1688 William of Orange makes a triumphant march into London.

1694 George I of England gets divorced.

1846 Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of the Union.

1872 A U.S. Army force defeats a group of Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory.

1904 Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices.

1920 The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists.

1933 President Franklin Roosevelt states, "The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one opposed to armed intervention."

1936 Benito Mussolini sends planes to Spain to support Francisco Franco's forces.

1938 France orders the doubling of forces in Somaliland.

1946 The French declare martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appears inevitable.

29 Dec.

1170 Thomas Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury, is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights of Henry II.

1607 Indian chief Powhatan spares John Smith's life after the pleas of his daughter Pocahontas.

1778 British troops, attempting a new strategy to defeat the colonials in America, capture Savannah.

1845 Texas  is admitted as the 28th state of the Union

1849 Gas lighting is installed in the White House.

1862 Union General William T. Sherman's troops try to gain the north side of Vicksburg in the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs.

1890 The last major conflict of the Indian wars takes place at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota 

1921 Sears Roebuck president Julius Rosenwald pledges $20 million of his personal fortune to help Sears through hard times.

1926 Germany and Italy sign an arbitration treaty.

1934 Japan formally denounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.

31 Dec.

1775 George Washington orders recruiting officers to accept free blacks into the army.

1852 The richest year of the gold rush ends with $81.3 million in gold produced.

1862 Union General William Rosecrans' army repels two Confederate attacks at the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River).

1889  George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army during World War II is born

1910 John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey, two of America's foremost aviators, die in separate plane crashes. 

1911 Helene Dutrieu wins the Femina aviation cup in Etampes. She sets a distance record for women at 158 miles.

1915 The Germans torpedo the British liner Persia without any warning killing 335 passengers.

1923 The Sahara is crossed by an automobile for the first time.

1930 Brewery heir Adolphus Busch is kidnapped.

1942 After five months of battle, Emperor Hirohito allows the Japanese commanders at Guadalcanal to retreat.

1944 Hungary declares war on Germany.

1977 Cambodia breaks relations with Vietnam.

2 Jan.

1492 Catholic forces under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella take the town of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Spain.

1758 The French begin bombardment of Madras, India.

1839 Photography pioneer Louis Daguerre takes the first photograph of the moon.

1861 The USS Brooklyn is readied at Norfolk to aid Fort Sumter. 

1863 In the second day of hard fighting at Stone's River, near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Union troops defeat the Confederates.

1903 President Theodore Roosevelt closes a post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to hire a Black postmistress.

1904 U.S. Marines are sent to Santo Domingo to aid the government against rebel forces.

1905 After a six-month siege, Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese.

1918 Russian Bolsheviks threaten to re-enter the war unless Germany returns occupied territory.

1932 Japanese forces in Manchuria set up a puppet government known as Manchukuo.

1936 In Berlin, Nazi officials claim that their treatment of Jews is not the business of the League of Nations. 

1942 In the Philippines, the city of Manila and the U.S. Naval base at Cavite fall to Japanese forces.

3 Jan.

1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

1777 George Washington defeats the British at Princeton, New Jersey. 

1861 Delaware rejects a proposal that it join the South in seceding from the Union.

1903 The Bulgarian government renounces the Treaty of Commerce.

1910 The Social Democratic Congress in Germany demands universal suffrage.

1916 Three armored Japanese cruisers are ordered to guard the Suez Canal.

1920 The last of the U.S. troops depart France. 

1921 Italy halts the issuing of passports to those emigrating to the United States.

1924 King Tutankhamen's sarcophagus is uncovered near Luxor, Egypt.

1930 The second conference on Germany's war reparations begins at the Hague

1931 Hundreds of farmers storm a small town in depression-plagued Arkansas demanding food.

1933 The Japanese take Shuangyashan, China, killing 500 Chinese.

1959 Alaska is admitted into the Union as the 49th and largest state.

1959 Fidel Castro takes command of the Cuban army.

1961 The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Slow but sure, a hundred years from now it will probably have finished you off

6 Jan.

1066 Harold Godwineson is crowned crowned King Harold II – King of England.

1367 Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince is born.

1412 Joan of Arc, French Saint and national heroine is born.

1540 Henry VIII of England marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. 

1861 The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the states's possible secession from the Union.

1882  Sam Rayburn, U.S. congressman from Texas & Speaker of the House is born.

1904 Japanese railway authorities in Korea refuse to transport Russian troops.

1910 Union leaders ask President William H. Taft to investigate U.S. Steel's practices.

1912 New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union.

1918 Germany acknowledges Finland's independence.

1919 Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, dies at the age of 60.

1921 The U.S. Navy orders the sale of 125 flying boats to encourage commercial aviation.

1937 The United States bans the shipment of arms to war-torn Spain.

1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to support the Lend-lease Bill to help supply the Allies.

1945 Boeing B-29 bombers in the Pacific strike new blows on Tokyo and Nanking.

1946 Ho Chi Minh wins in the Vietnamese elections.

1958 Moscow announces a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.

8 Jan.

1587 Johannes Fabricus, astronomer who discovered sunspots is born.

1681 The Treaty of Radzin ends a five year war between the Turks and the allied countries of Russia and Poland.

1745 England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands form an alliance against Russia.

1815 Andrew Jackson defeats the British on the fields of Chalmette in the Battle of New Orleans.

1871 Prussian troops begin to bombard Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

1892 A coal mine explosion kills 100 in McAlister, Oklahoma.

1900 The Boers attack the British in Ladysmith, South Africa, but are turned back.

1935 Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, is born in Mississippi. 

1946 President Harry S. Truman vows to stand by the Yalta accord on self-determination for the Balkans.

1954 President Dwight Eisenhower proposes stripping convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship.

Wanted to honor the king in the proper way, here's Med's link :)

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16 Jan.

1547 Ivan IV crowns himself the new Czar of Russia in Assumption Cathedral in Moscow.

1786 The Council of Virginia guarantees religious freedom.

1821  John C. Breckinridge, 14th U.S. Vice President, Confederate Secretary of War is born.

1847 John C. Fremont, the famed "Pathfinder" of Western exploration, is appointed governor of California.

1865 General William T. Sherman begins a march through the Carolinas.

1900 The U.S. Senate recognizes the Anglo-German Treaty of 1899 by which the UK renounced its rights to the Samoan Islands.

1909 One of Ernest Shackleton's polar exploration teams reaches the Magnetic South Pole.

1914 Maxim Gorky is authorized to return to Russia after an eight year exile for political dissidence.

1920 The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Paris.

1920 Allies lift the blockade on trade with Russia.

1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt asks for an extension of the Social Security Act to include more women and children.

1940 Hitler cancels an attack in the West due to bad weather and the capture of German attack plans in Belgium.

1942 Japan's advance into Burma begins.

1944 Eisenhower assumes supreme command of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.