A look back at history on this date
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Foundation of the short-lived Kingdom of Corsica.
The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.
Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
The Mamluk Sultanate defeats the Mongols in the battle of Elbistan.
Henry VI, King of Germany, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by pope Celestine III.
Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to the Norman Robert Guiscard.
The sharif of Mecca changes the khutbah from the Shiite Fatimid caliph in Cairo to the Sunni Abbasid Caliph in Bagdhad.
The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
Gaius Maecenas
Roman politician (died 8 BC)
Born 68 BCFrederick IV
Duke of Lorraine (died 1329)
Born 1282John Paston
English noble (died 1479)
Born 1442Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1519)
Born 1452Guru Nanak
the first Sikh guru (died 1539)
Born 1469Pietro Cataldi
Italian mathematician and astronomer (died 1626)
Born 1552Guru Arjan Dev
fifth Sikh leader (died 1606)
Born 1563Claudius Salmasius
French author and scholar (died 1653)
Born 1588Suiko
emperor of Japan (born 554)
628Liu Bin
emperor of Southern Han (born 920)
943Lin Yanyu
Chinese court official and eunuch
956Godwin
Earl of Wessex (born 1001)
1053Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (born 1094)
Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (born 1094)
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