1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
1726 – Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1642) died.
1760 – The “Great Fire” of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.
1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.