A look back at history on this date
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Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, is premièred.
L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
The last battle of the Cudgel War takes place on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia.
With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia.
Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague.
A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.
King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
Emperor Toba of Japan (died 1156)
Emperor Toba of Japan (died 1156)
Born 1103Ibn Battuta
Moroccan explorer
Born 1304Amadeus VII
Count of Savoy
Born 1360Louis
Duke of Savoy (died 1465)
Born 1413Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Italian philosopher (died 1494)
Born 1463Johan Friis
Danish statesman (died 1570)
Born 1494Charles V
Holy Roman Emperor (died 1558)
Born 1500Pope Clement VIII (died 1605)
Pope Clement VIII (died 1605)
Born 1536Æthelberht of Kent
Æthelberht of Kent
616Liu Yun
Chinese governor (jiedushi)
951Borrell
bishop of Vic
1018Thomas
archbishop of York
1114Charles III of Naples (born 1345)
Charles III of Naples (born 1345)
1386See how inflation has changed the value of money since you were born.
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