Highlights in history on this date: * 1531 - Earthquake in Portugal kills tens of thousands of people and flattens much of Lisbon and other cities. * 1797 - The Bank of England issues one pound notes for the first time. * 1804 - Settlers arrive at Sullivan's Cove, the start of the first settlement of Hobart. * 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from island of Elba to begin his second conquest of Fr