2014 Event Lupita Nyong'o, Oscar winner for best supporting actress in '12 Years a Slave', will join Lancome as its newest brand ambassador 2014 Event The 86th Academy Awards is hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. 'Gravity,' '12 Years a Slave,' and 'Dallas Buyers Club' win the most awards. The broadcast received the highest views of any Oscars ceremony since the year 2000 2014 Event '12 Years a Slave' and 'Gravity' dominate wins at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards ceremony; Chiwetel Ejiofor ('12 Years') and Cate Blanchett ('Blue Jasmine') receive leading actor and actress awards, respectively 2014 Event At the 71st Golden Globe Awards, Best Motion Picture is awarded to '12 Years a Slave'; 'American Hustle is receives the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy award, with actress Amy Adams honored as Best Actress 1945 Birthday Nikita Mikhalkov, director, Dark Eyes, Slave of Love 1919 Birthday Lois Collier, born in South Carolina, actress, Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl 1895 Death Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 1893 Death Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle and is eaten 1885 Death Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42 1875 Birthday Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College 1873 Event Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar 1868 Event Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana 1867 Birthday Herbert Prior, born in England, actor, Caught Short, Slave of Desire 1858 Death Dred Scott, U.S. slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies 1855 Event Wisconsin Supreme Court declares U.S. Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional 1854 Event Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by U.S. Deputy marshals in Boston 1851 Event Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave 1850 Event Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue 1850 Event Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 1842 Event Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston 1842 Birthday Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter, Slave Market 1839 Event Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad 1837 Birthday Harriet Powers, U.S., slave/writer, Creation of Animals 1837 Death Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies 1831 Death Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA 1831 Event Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery 1822 Event Denmark Vesey, leads slave rebellion in South Carolina 1822 Event House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged) 1818 Event Netherlands and England sign treaty against illegal slave handling 1807 Event British Parliament abolishes slave trade 1807 Event Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 1805 Birthday Hiram Powers, U.S. sculptor, Greek Slave 1800 Birthday Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion, 1831 1800 Event Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave 1799 Event William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) is willed the slave York 1795 Event Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday 1795 Death Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed 1795 Event Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao 1795 Event Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned 1793 Event 1st U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves 1792 Event Denmark abolishes slave trade 1791 Event Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman 1788 Event English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade 1787 Event English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes 1782 Event Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies 1770 Death Crispus Attuks, slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre 1767 Event Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope 1760 Event Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught" 1753 Event Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass 1750 Event Slave uprising on Curacao 1747 Death Jacobus E J Capitein, Dutch slave/vicar/merchant, dies 1709 Death Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies 1663 Event 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) 1655 Birthday Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedy writer, Slave in Algeria 1443 Death Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies 1402 Birthday Ferdinand, the Saint, Portuguese slave of Fez/saint 1128 Death Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies 743 Event Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited 432 Event St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
