A look back at history on this date
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A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
The Munich Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria.
Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches new coastline (Brazil).
The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as King of England.
Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
Dagobert III succeeds his father King Childebert III as King of the Franks.
Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
Malcolm IV of Scotland (died 1165)
Malcolm IV of Scotland (died 1165)
Born 1141 (probable)[19]Afonso II of Portugal (died 1223)
Afonso II of Portugal (died 1223)
Born 1185John de Vere
12th Earl of Oxford (died 1462)
Born 1408George of Poděbrady
King of Bohemia (died 1471)
Born 1420Joan of France
Duchess of Berry (died 1505)
Born 1464Robert Fayrfax
English Renaissance composer (died 1521)
Born 1464Julius Caesar Scaliger
Italian physician and scholar (died 1558)
Born 1484Alexander Ales
Scottish theologian and academic (died 1565)
Born 1500Saint George
Roman soldier and martyr
303Childebert III
Frankish king (born 670)
711Wihtred of Kent
Wihtred of Kent
725Æthelred of Wessex (born 837)
Æthelred of Wessex (born 837)
871Yang Shihou
Chinese general
915See how inflation has changed the value of money since you were born.
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