History Hop Tags - Leaves

536-12-09

Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire.

1156-09-08

Henry II Jasormigott leaves Bavaria

1192-10-09

Richard I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise

1218-05-24

The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

1290-10-09

Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves

1434-07-28

Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon

1492-09-06

Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands

1492-10-14

Columbus leaves San Salvador; arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion (Bahamas)

1493-01-16

Columbus leaves the new world and sets sail for Spain on his 1st trip

1495-05-20

French King Charles VIII leaves Naples

1497-05-10

Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to the New World

1509-10-12

Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy

1524-05-20

Duke of Albany leaves Scotland

1541-04-07

Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.

1567-03-11

Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel

1571-03-25

Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves England

1574-06-18

Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland

1579-07-26

Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean

1587-12-17

The Earl Leicester's army leaves Netherlands

1596-05-18

Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya

1597-06-14

At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands

1599-01-11

Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove & muskaat

1599-07-19

Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java

1616-04-30

King James I of England leaves Brielle/Vlissingen

1627-11-08

English fleet under George Villiers leaves Île de Ré

1669-07-06

LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River

1686-12-19

Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Daniel Defoe)

1689-07-01

Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan

1714-11-22

King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden

1741-06-15

Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America

1744-02-08

French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon

1746-01-03

Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14]

1746-01-14

Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow [OS=Jan 3]

1752-01-03

East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed

1753-03-25

Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia

1776-09-12

Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission

1777-12-08

Captain Cook leaves Society Islands

1787-09-30

1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston

1787-11-30

Spanish governor leaves Philippines

1795-08-15

Joseph Haydn leaves England forever

1799-08-23

Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.

1799-10-22

Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition

1802-06-15

Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Héros

1804-01-30

Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River

1807-11-27

The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops

1809-06-10

1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila

1809-12-26

English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen

1811-10-29

1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

1815-07-09

King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France

1817-10-20

1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage

1819-05-22

1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga)

1821-01-17

Mexico permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas, after his death leaves to son Stephen

1826-09-03

USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe

1830-09-27

Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed

1835-10-20

HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti

1835-11-26

HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ

1836-02-17

HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania

1836-03-14

HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia

1841-05-01

1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri, for California

1843-06-01

Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist

1850-01-20

Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England

1850-07-19

Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)

1853-05-31

Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance

1853-10-12

John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans

1854-03-01

SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again

1855-04-26

Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy

1855-07-04

In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.

1861-02-22

On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration

1861-11-19

The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe leaves Philadelphia, USA, for London, England on the Elizabeth Watts

1863-05-28

1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1863-08-12

1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC)

1864-11-15

Union Major General Sherman leaves Atlanta on the "March to the Sea"

1865-04-21

Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington

1867-01-31

Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria

1876-05-17

7th US Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer leaves Ft Lincoln

1876-09-14

Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda

1876-11-05

Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe

1878-04-21

Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia

1879-06-30

Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods

1882-02-15

1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin

1883-11-03

American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.

1889-02-14

1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east

1891-04-01

Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti

1893-06-22

British fleet under Vice Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut

1897-07-11

Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole

1898-05-25

1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF

1898-11-26

SS Portland "The Titanic of New England" leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed

1900-10-16

Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin

1902-03-02

Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets

1904-09-23

Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa, Tibet

1905-08-29

Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville

1906-05-22

A British garrison leaves Esquimalt, on the Pacific coast, after a military occupation that began in 1858: these were the last British soldiers stationed in Canada

1908-07-07

Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay

1908-08-07

The first train to travel the length of New Zealand's North Island 'main trunk line', leaves Wellington

1908-09-27

Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile was leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

1911-10-24

Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

1912-04-11

RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY

1913-01-02

Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa.

1914-07-18

Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance

1914-07-29

British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover

1914-08-03

German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina

1914-08-05

Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium

1914-09-03

Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania

1914-11-24

Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party

1915-05-01

British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool

1916-11-26

Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched'

1917-01-29

British submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch

1919-06-14

1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Newfoundland

1921-01-20

British submarine K5 leaves with man & mouse

1922-02-11

US intervention army leaves Honduras

1923-09-28

Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations

1923-10-02

British occuping army leaves Constantinople

1924-11-28

Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber

1925-05-21

Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole

1926-05-11

Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean

1926-06-12

Brazil leaves League of Nations

1926-09-11

Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining

1927-10-28

KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight

1928-06-17

Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)

1928-12-20

1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Quebec

1931-12-11

Japan leaves the Gold Standard

1932-05-20

Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic

1933-03-27

Japan leaves League of Nations

1935-06-08

Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves the game

1936-03-25

200-inch mirror blank leaves for California to be ground

1936-05-01

Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades

1936-05-27

RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage

1938-07-17

Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland

1938-09-17

British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich

1939-04-11

Hungary leaves League of Nations

1940-05-31

Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk

1941-04-14

King Peter leaves Yugoslavia

1941-05-19

New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland

1942-03-11

1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1942-03-11

Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia

1942-05-12

David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine

1942-05-30

US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

1942-06-27

PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk

1942-08-17

Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on USS Hornet

1942-10-07

Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)

1943-01-10

1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco

1943-08-21

Japan leaves Aleutian Islands

1944-08-11

Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz

1944-09-03

68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp

1944-10-22

Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo

1945-07-16

Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb

1947-06-17

1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC

1949-11-29

Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa

1950-11-07

French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta

1951-12-19

Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands

1954-09-08

Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio

1955-01-29

John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)

1955-10-04

Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul

1956-04-26

First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas

1956-06-18

Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as British leave Suez Canal

1958-02-19

Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records

1959-04-27

The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.

1961-03-17

South Africa leaves British Commonwealth

1961-05-31

Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth

1962-06-30

French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria

1962-12-21

Angolin leaves Comecon

1965-08-08

Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation

1967-08-16

Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves

1967-10-27

NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen

1968-09-13

Albania leaves Warsaw pact

1969-01-02

"Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 perfs

1969-01-04

"Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 perfs

1969-03-15

Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead

1969-05-02

British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY

1969-06-08

Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones

1969-06-13

Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones

1970-06-11

US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya

1970-07-01

Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11

1970-09-21

Luna 16 leaves Moon

1971-02-10

John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in NYC

1971-09-03

John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return

1972-02-17

President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China

1972-03-05

Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party

1974-10-05

Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.

1975-04-30

Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders

1976-01-11

Military coup in Ecuador, Pres Guillermo Lara leaves

1976-04-22

Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation

1976-06-25

The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting

1978-01-19

The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.

1979-01-16

Shah leaves Iran on vacation, never to return; Bakhtiar government established by the Shah to preside until unrest subsides

1979-03-31

The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).

1979-12-15

Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama

1982-01-05

Darryl Sittler, on advice from his doctor, leaves the Toronto Maple Leafs because of mental depression

1982-08-30

PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut

1982-09-01

Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon

1983-07-07

11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR

1984-12-31

US leaves UNESCO

1986-02-11

Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country

1988-09-16

Fish leaves rock group Marillion

1990-09-24

East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact

1990-12-12

US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait

1993-10-10

Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed

1994-08-14

Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center

1997-08-16

For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)

2000-03-20

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.

2001-06-05

U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.

2002-08-16

Africa Women's Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg

2006-05-26

The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.

2008-02-05

A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves at least 58 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.

2009-08-15

Portugal leaves recession after three consecutive quarters of negative growth having its GDP recover by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2009

2009-09-11

The Brazilian economy technically leaves the recession when GDP grew 1.9% in the second quarter of 2009 after having fallen in the first quarter of 2009 and last quarter of 2008

2010-01-11

Simon Cowell leaves "American Idol"

2010-01-12

Colombia officially leaves the recession after achieving 2% economic growth in the last quarter of 2009

2010-06-09

Hungary leaves the recession after experiencing 0.9% growth in the first quarter as a result of growing exports and effective government spending measures

2010-10-31

Belgium leaves the recession with 0.5% growth in the third quarter

2010-12-07

Iceland officially leaves the recession with growth of 1.2% in the third quarter

2011-02-09

Latvia leaves deep recession with an annualised growth of 3.7% in the last quarter of 2010, it is reported today

2011-05-13

Romania officially leaves the recession after 2 years following economic growth of an annualised 1.6% in the first quarter

2011-10-29

Record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million residents without power for more than 36 hours.

2012-07-02

Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless

2012-07-29

Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea

2012-07-30

Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without electricity

2012-07-31

A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power

2016-01-23

Jacques Villeneuve leaves Venturi Formula E team

2016-02-21

Michigan shooting spree leaves at least 6 dead

2016-03-14

Maryland Shooting Outside Police Station Leaves One Officer Dead

2016-03-28

Pakistan explosion leaves many dead at Lahore park

2016-06-09

Tel Aviv market attack leaves 3 dead

2017-01-01

New Year's Attack on Packed Istanbul Club Leaves 39 Dead

2017-01-15

Prison Riot in Brazil Leaves at Least 10 Inmates Dead

2017-02-03

Uber CEO leaves Trump's economic advisory council

2017-04-09

Shooting at upscale Florida mall leaves 1 dead, 2 wounded

2017-12-23

Storm leaves 75 dead, dozens missing in southern Philippines

1819-05-31

Walt Whitman, West Hills New York, American poet (Leaves of Grass)

1850-01-15

Hallander Helleman, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1855-05-01

Marie Corelli, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1859-10-23

Edgar Høyer, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1863-02-24

Emil Helsengreen, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1864-06-30

Emma Wiehe, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1868-04-24

Blanche Cornwall, Falling Leaves

1871-9-05

Helge Nissen, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1872-12-08

Mace Greenleaf, Falling Leaves

1875-12-09

Jeanne Tramcourt, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1879-02-03

Jacob Texiere, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1883-12-06

Carl Hillebrandt, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1884-10-04

Halvard Hoff, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1888-04-30

Hugo Bruun, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1890-11-29

K. Nambu, Eve's Leaves

1914-04-21

Howard Dimsdale, Bub Leaves Home

1918-04-23

Bob Hopkins, Autumn Leaves

1920-11-04

Hans Fries, With Oak Leaves and Fig Leaf

1933-01-25

Corazon Aquino, A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution

1934-02-22

Ichirô Zaitsu, Tree Without Leaves

1936-04-15

Metin Ersoy, The Leaves of Autumn

1948-11-30

Colette Daiute, Cathy Leaves Home: But Not Really

1965-08-04

Amelia Campbell, Leaves of Grass

1969-12-03

TJ Johnson, The Leaves of Eden

1970-01-12

Brian James McGuire, She Leaves the City

1970-07-23

Bill Migliore, Leaves of Grass

1972-08-14

Takako Honda, Dead Leaves

1975-08-27

Sascha Klement, One Stays, the Other Leaves

1975-9-03

Steven Rosenhaus, The One with the Tea Leaves

1976-02-14

Liv Kristine, Norwegian singer (Leaves' Eyes)

1977-02-24

Viola Farassino, Under the Leaves

1978-04-14

Michael LaPointe, Dirt on Leaves

1983-03-11

Lucy DeVito, Leaves of Grass

1984-06-18

Kent Jude Bernard, Leaves of Grass

1985-01-26

Brad Giglio, Calendar Leaves

1986-05-22

Martin Dudzik, Calendar Leaves

1986-11-01

Michael Serebriakov, Calendar Leaves

1830-06-01

Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body. (b. 1781)

1912-03-24

Mace Greenleaf, Falling Leaves

1920-05-02

Hallander Helleman, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1924-04-21

Marie Corelli, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1925-01-11

Halvard Hoff, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1926-10-05

Helge Nissen, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1932-07-30

Emil Helsengreen, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1937-07-13

Carl Hillebrandt, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1944-05-01

Jacob Texiere, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1949-05-05

Emma Wiehe, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1952-01-02

Jeanne Tramcourt, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1962-04-04

Hugo Bruun, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan

1991-08-27

Howard Dimsdale, Bub Leaves Home

2009-08-01

Corazon Aquino, A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution