TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Friday, December 2, the 337th day of 2016. There are 29 days left in the year.

1697 — St Paul’s Cathedral opens in London

1763 — Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing U.S. synagogue)

1790 — Austrian army occupies Brussels

1802 — English sell Suriname to Dutch

1804 — Napoleon Bonaparte crowned first emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII

1805 — Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz

1812 — James Madison re-elected President of U.S., Elbridge Gerry Vice-President

1813 — Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy