Random Events in History #6 - New Year's Special

12/5/1225 - The German city of Bielefeld is founded.

29/4/1285 - Chios is captured by Venetian raiders, it is later retaken.

Spring 1346 - A small Black Death epidemic begins in the Crimean Peninsula. It is spread all over Europe killing over 200 million people. It is the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history.

2/6/1420 - Catherine of Valois marries King Henry V of England.

30/7/1503 - Saint Helena, an island in the South Atlantic is sighted by Portuguese navigators.

15/10/1632 - The University of Tartu is founded in Swedish LIvonia (modern-day Estonia).

21/1/1720 - Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm

18/8/1765 - Joseph II becomes Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

24/2/1842 - The islands of Tahiti and Tahuata are declared a protectorate of France.

5/10/1864 - A cyclone kills 70,000 in Calcutta (changed to Kolkata), India

1/1/1876 - The Reichsbank opens in Berlin

4/6/1878 - The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the British Empire.

1/4/1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago. The company is known for manufacturing chewing gum. Today it's a part of the Mars Corporation.

4/1/1900 - Miners in Belgum, Germany and Austria-Hungary lead to riots.

7/4/1907 - Hershey Park opens in Pennsylvania

14/2/1912 - Arizona is admitted to the Union, as the 48th state of the US

27/10/1922 - The people of Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe) reject union with South Africa

17/4/1932 - Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia (former name of Ethiopia)

12/2/1953 - The Nordic Council is inaugurated

2/3/1956 - Morocco declares independence from France.

5/12/1961 - John F. Kennedy gives support to the Volta Dam project in Ghana.

5/2/1967 - NASA lunches Lunar Orbiter 3

1/6/1976 - The UK and Iceland end the Cod War

1/1/1981 - Greece becomes a member of the European Economic Community, predecessor of the EU.