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• Early federal questions about tetraethyl lead, 1922-1923 1922–1923Before ethyl gasoline went on sale, the Public Health Service raised the question of a health hazard with General Motors and du Pont.
• Egyptian rule in Canaan c. 1550 BCE – c. 1200 BCEEgypt's dominance over Canaan in the Late Bronze Age, contested by the Hittites.
• Eisenhower’s farewell address 17 Jan 1961President Dwight Eisenhower’s televised farewell to the country on 17 January 1961, three days before he left office.
• Election fund of February 1933 20 Feb 1933 – 5 Apr 1933The fund Schacht asked for after the meeting of 20 February 1933, to be shared between the Nazis and their coalition partners; pledged at three million Reichsmarks.
• End of leaded petrol, as UNEP announced, 2021 30 Aug 2021UNEP said in August 2021 that leaded petrol had been eradicated worldwide; the U.S. still allowed leaded fuel for aircraft and other off-road uses in 1996.
• End of the Cold War 1989–1991The winding down of the US–Soviet rivalry, from the revolutions of 1989 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
• End of the embargo, March 1974 18 Mar 1974The decision of the Arab oil ministers in Vienna on 18 March 1974 to lift the embargo on the United States.
• Energy Commission sets aside the margin cap, 2025 29 Aug 2025On 29 August 2025 the commissioners resolved to deprioritize the maximum margin and penalty for at least five years.
• Epidemics of the 1610s 1610–1619Sickness that struck the peoples of southern New England before the English came to Plymouth.
• Establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, 1478 1 Nov 1478Papal bull of 1 November 1478 that let the Spanish crown name inquisitors.
• Estates-General of 1789 5 May 1789Assembly of the three orders of France, the first since 1614, which opened at Versailles on 5 May 1789.
• Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 10 Mar 2019Boeing 737 MAX crash near Addis Ababa on 10 March 2019, six minutes after takeoff: 157 on board, none survived.
• Ethyl Corp. v. EPA, 1976 20 Dec 1974 – 19 Mar 1976After a 1974 ruling for Ethyl was vacated, the full D.C. Circuit court upheld EPA’s 1973 limits on lead in gasoline.
• European review of EssilorLuxottica’s purchase of GrandVision (2021) 23 Mar 2021The European Commission cleared the purchase on 23 March 2021 on conditions, including the sale of around 350 optical stores.
• Evolve to Excellence (2013) 2013Purdue’s 2013 sales program, built with McKinsey, aimed at high-volume OxyContin prescribers.
• Execution of Atahualpa Jul 1533In July 1533 Atahualpa was baptised and strangled at Cajamarca. The Spanish accounts give different reasons for the sentence; Pedro Pizarro says Soto came back afterwards having found nothing.
• Expulsion from Moscow, 1891–92 1891–1892Expulsion of thousands of Jewish craftsmen and their families from Moscow, which lay outside the Pale.
• Expulsion of the Jews from England, 1290 18 Jul 1290 – 1 Nov 1290Edict of 18 July 1290 by Edward I ordering all Jews to leave England by 1 November.
• Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1182 1180–1198Philip Augustus confiscated the lands and buildings of the Jews of his own domain in 1182 and drove them out; he readmitted them in 1198.
• Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1306 22 Jul 1306Secret arrest of the Jews of France on 22 July 1306, seizure of their property, and expulsion by order of Philip IV.
• Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1394 17 Sep 1394Ordinance of 17 September 1394, in the name of Charles VI, ending the right of Jews to live in France.
• Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, 1492 31 Mar 1492 – 31 Jul 1492Expulsion of the Jews from the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon under the Alhambra Decree, with a deadline of 31 July 1492.