1497 John Cabot claims Eastern Canada for England (believes he has found Asia in Nova Scotia) 1509 Henry VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, London 1793 1st republican constitution in France adopted 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River 1853 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) 1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso aged 19, opens in Paris 1930 1st detection of airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. | 
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