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King George War begins.
Lawn mower invented by Edwin Beard Budding.
Suez Canal opens.
Revolving machine gun invented by Richard J. Gatling.
United States and Britain start warring.
President Sadat of Egypt is assassinated.
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), poet of Heroides, Amores, and Metamorphoses dies.
The Times is created and published for the first time in London.
Galileo Galilee makes his first observations of stars with a telescope.
Japan outlaws Christianity.
The Second Crusade begins.
The Treaty of Vienna is signed.