A look back at history on this date
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The first Saturnalia festival is celebrated in ancient Rome.
Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.
Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut and Holy Roman Empress and her son William I, Duke of Bavaria, sign a peace treaty ending the Hook and Cod wars.
King Kyawswa of Pagan is overthrown by the three Myinsaing brothers, marking the de facto end of the Pagan Kingdom.
Assassination of William I of Normandy.
Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Eastern Roman garrison.
Kujō Yoritsugu
Japanese shōgun (died 1256)
Born 1239Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (died 1324)
Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (died 1324)
Born 1267Ernest of Bavaria
Roman Catholic bishop (died 1612)
Born 1554Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana
poet in Mughal Empire (died 1627)
Born 1556Pedro Téllez-Girón
3rd Duke of Osuna, Spanish nobleman and politician (died 1624)
Born 1574Roger L'Estrange
English pamphleteer and author (died 1704)
Born 1616Prince Rupert of the Rhine (died 1682)
Prince Rupert of the Rhine (died 1682)
Born 1619Anthony Wood
English historian and author (died 1695)
Born 1632Sturm
abbot of Fulda
779al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i
Abbasid vizier
908Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz
Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day
908William I
duke of Normandy
942Pope Gregory VIII (born 1100)
Pope Gregory VIII (born 1100)
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