Constantinople (now Istanbul), establishing the Eastern Roman Empire, which would survive for more than a thousand years.
Florida
On October 27, 1810, U.S. President James Madison proclaimed that the United States should take possession of West Florida between the Mississippi and Perdido Rivers, based on a tenuous claim that it was part of the Louisiana Purchase
The Bonus Army was comprised of veterans from World War 1 who were promised a bonus of around $1.25 for every day they served. When the depression hit, the veterans wanted congress to give them the bonus they had promised but congress denied them. They marched to protest and demand their bonus becasue they had nothing left and no where else to go.
