10/7 Chronicle of Major Events 1

1142: The Song and Jin dynasties finalized negotiations that began in November of the previous year (11th year of Shaoxing), with Jin envoys led by Zhongshu Shilang Liu Yu delivering the 'Jin Dynasty's Oath Letter' to Song, officially enacting the Shaoxing Peace Treaty. 1477: Uppsala University was founded, led by Archbishop Jacob Ulfsson. 1571: The allied navies of European Christian nations defeated the Ottoman navy in the Battle of Lepanto in the Ionian Sea. 1691: King William III and Queen Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland issued the Charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. 1763: King George III of Great Britain issued the Royal Proclamation, prohibiting British settlers from establishing themselves in most of the territory newly acquired from France in North America and reserving the land for Indigenous peoples. 1777: American Revolutionary War: American forces defeated the British army led by General John Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga (also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights), ultimately leading to Burgoyne's surrender. 1849: Edgar Allan Poe, the writer who was previously found drunk in Baltimore, Maryland, died unexpectedly while receiving treatment at a local hospital. 1864: The Sino-Russian Treaty for the Demarcation of the Northwestern Boundary was signed. 1868: Cornell University officially opened in Ithaca, New York, with 412 students enrolling the following day. 1868: Odake Castle, the last castle of the Satake clan in the Tohoku region of Japan, fell during the Boshin War. 1870: Léon Gambetta, a leader of the French Republican faction, escaped the Prussian siege of Paris by hot air balloon to seek reinforcements in the provinces.