Napoleon Bonaparte was declared the Emperor of France by the French Senate.
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Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of treason led to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe, who was his roommate.
The Chinese Theater opened in Hollywood, California, built in an Exotic Revival style architecture.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Tennessee Valley Act to build dams.
The Crusaders lost control of the city of Acre, the Kingdom of Jerusalem's last bastion, after a fourteen-day siege.
The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
