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Lincoln becomes the Republican presidential candidate, benefiting from a Democratic party split on the issue of slavery
Benjamin Franklin's chopped-up snake, urging union of the colonies with the caption 'Join or Die', is the first American political cartoon
General Gage sends a detachment of British troops to seize weapons held by American Patriots at Concord
November - Tito and his partisans, with Soviet assistance, liberate Belgrade
A border incident at Balta, in the southern Ukraine, sparks a war between Russia and Turkey that will last six years
Pope Urban II preaches the first crusade, urging the Christians of Europe to march east to recover Jerusalem from the Muslims
The English parliament attempts to clip the wings of the new king, Charles I, by placing an annual limit on his power to raise taxes
General Alfred von Schlieffen devises plans for a potential two-pronged attack against France and Russia in a swift war
A French official travels down the Ohio valley, placing markers to claim it for France
The French queen Marie Antoinette is wrongly implicated in a scandal involving a diamond necklace
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