A look back at history on this date
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Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in San Antonio, Texas.
Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed and the conspirators arrested.
American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to help train the Continental Army.
Berbice slave uprising in Guyana: The first major slave revolt in South America.
J. S. Bach leads his Tafel-Music Shepherd Cantata for the birthday of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.
Traditionally the date of publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
Khosrow II, Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown.
Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople - the Hagia Sophia.
Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
Al-Zafir
Fatimid caliph (died 1154)
Born 1133Pope Paul II (died 1471)
Pope Paul II (died 1471)
Born 1417Louis IX
Duke of Bavaria (died 1479)
Born 1417Matthias Corvinus
Hungarian king (died 1490)
Born 1443Onofrio Panvinio
Italian historian (died 1568)
Born 1529Henry XI of Legnica
thrice Duke of Legnica (died 1588)
Born 1539Salima Sultan Begum
Empress of the Mughal Empire (died 1612)
Born 1539Jean-Baptiste Morin
French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (died 1656)
Born 1583Al-Walid I
Umayyad caliph (born 668)
715Li Keyong
Shatuo military governor during the Tang dynasty in China (born 856)
908Herbert II
Count of Vermandois, (born 884)
943David I
prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
943Willigis
German archbishop (born 940)
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