David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of United States, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping native Hawaiians of their rights.,
SirThomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII of England after refusing to agree to Henrys' decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church.,