A look back at history on this date
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A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan.
Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
Portuguese Crisis of 1383-85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.
War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.
Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.
King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
Catherine of York (died 1527)
Catherine of York (died 1527)
Born 1479John de Vere
14th Earl of Oxford, English politician (died 1526)
Born 1499Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Flemish painter (died 1550)
Born 1502Giambattista Benedetti
Italian mathematician and physicist (died 1590)
Born 1530Paolo Sarpi
Italian writer (died 1623)
Born 1552Méric Casaubon
Swiss-English scholar and author (died 1671)
Born 1599Cosimo III de' Medici
Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1723)
Born 1642Christopher Monck
2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (died 1688)
Born 1653Tiberius II Constantine
Byzantine emperor
582Duncan I of Scotland
Duncan I of Scotland
1040Rainald of Dassel
Italian archbishop
1167Minamoto no Yoriie
second Shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate
1204John I of Portugal (born 1357)
John I of Portugal (born 1357)
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