1619Events May 13 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason. July 30 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. - Dutch statesman Johan van OldenbarneveltJohan van Oldenbarnevelt ( September 14, 1547 May 13, 1619) was a Dutch statesman, who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain. Born in Amersfoort, Van Oldenbarnevelt studied law at several universities throughout Europe is executed in The HagueThis article is about the city in the Netherlands; there is also a region known as (the) Hague in France. The Hague ( Dutch: Den Haag or officially 's-Gravenhage is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the after having been accused of treason.
1779Events The Iron Bridge is completed across the Severn river in Shropshire; the first all cast-iron bridge ever constructed. Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine, now the oldest working engine in the world, is brought into service. The city of Tampere is fo - War of Bavarian Succession : RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Withn and FrenchThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn DistrictGerman: Innviertel Small Austrian territory southeast of the Inn river. The Inn District belonged to Bavaria until 1778. In consequence of the War of Bavarian Succession it was ceded to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. The major city in the Inn District is).
1985 - Philadelphia's mayor orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
