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Historical Events
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30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
432 - St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
768 - [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
904 - Saraceens hijacker Leo van Tripoli occupies & plunders Thessalonica
904 - Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
1291 - Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
1423 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1451 - Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1498 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1588 - English fleet beats Spanish Armada
1620 - Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1653 - Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux
1655 - Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1658 - Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
Famous Birthdays
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1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1396 - Philips, the Good, Duke of Burgundy//Brabant/Limburg/count
1443 - Albrecht III of Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon
1527 - Maximilian II, German King/Emperor (1564-76)
1550 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster
1578 - Catharina Belgica of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange
1597 - Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzassisch painter, baptized
1598 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1629 - Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach, composer
1654 - Jacob Hop, Dutch politician/diplomat
1702 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1704 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer)
1718 - John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
1724 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
1737 - Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales (d. 1813)
Famous Deaths
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855 - Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
1358 - Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies
1396 - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1508 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1494)
1556 - Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder (Jesuit), dies at about 65
1556 - St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome
1566 - Bartholome de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92
1648 - Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60
1653 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1693 - Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73
1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1750 - Johan V, King of Portugal, dies
1763 - James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies
1784 - Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher (Jacques le fataliste), dies
1790 - Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer, dies at 48
