What happend on 15th July

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1895

Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record cricket innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.

1870

Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.

1870

Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

1862

American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1815

Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon

1806

Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.

1799

Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.

1789

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.

1685

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685.

1410

Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris): power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians