A look back at history on this date
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Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
Death of the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo, under whose rule victories were achieved against the Kingdom of Hungary and against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Gallipoli (1416).
A five-year Byzantine-Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.
The Bijapur-Mumbai inscription is issued by Pulakeshin II, describing the Battle of Narmada.:β207β
Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
Caracalla
Roman emperor (died 217)
Born 188Amalia of Saxony
Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut (died 1501)
Born 1436VojtΔch I of Pernstein
Bohemian nobleman (died 1534)
Born 1490Ambrosius Blarer
German-Swiss theologian and reformer (died 1564)
Born 1492William Strachey
English author (died 1621)
Born 1572Richard Saltonstall
English diplomat (died 1661)
Born 1586Edward Nicholas
English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (died 1669)
Born 1593Gaspar Sanz
Spanish guitarist, composer, and priest (died 1710)
Born 1640Ambrose
Roman archbishop and saint (born 338)
397Isidore of Seville
Spanish archbishop and saint (born 560)
636Plato of Sakkoudion
Byzantine monk and saint (born 735)
814Formosus
pope of the Catholic Church (born 816)
896Liu Yin
Chinese warlord and governor (born 874)
911See how inflation has changed the value of money since you were born.
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