France agreed to sell 828,000 square miles of territory that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and which doubled the size of the United States.
The Russian Empire’s State Duma met for the first time at the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg.
Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria signed the Reinheitsgebot, a law to ensure the purity of beer that specified a limited number of ingredients.
A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end apartheid.
On the 4th March 1789, the United States constitution went into effect when the first US Congress met.
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that redrew electoral boundaries in the first example of ‘gerrymandering’.
On the 8th February 1587 Mary Stuart, more commonly known as Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed in the great hall of Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire.
On the 9th January 1799, modern income tax was introduced for the first time. William Pitt the Younger, the British Prime Minister, announced the tax the previous December as a way to pay for the wars against France.
On the 30th December 1922, the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – was founded.
On the 28th December 1972, Kim Il-sung became the first President of North Korea.
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