1638 – Cornelis S. Goyer captured Mauritius.
1663 – Royal Theater at Drury Lane, London opens.
1664 - Emperor Louis XIV of France inaugurated 'Versailles Palace'.
1727 – Empress Catherine I of Russia orders the expulsion of Jews from Ukraine.
1775 - Turkish state Bukovina separated from Austria.
1800 – Indiana province was formed in America.
1861 - Bengali poet, story writer, lyricist, musician, playwright, and essayist Rabindranath Tagore was born in a prosperous family in Calcutta. Tagore is the first person from Asia to receive the Nobel Prize.