A look back at history on this date
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According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
The Janszoon voyage of 1605-06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of New Guinea.
The Ava Kingdom and the royal city of Ava (Inwa) were founded by King Thado Minbya.
Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
Battle of Kemej: The royal army of Solomon, King of Hungary defeats the force of his rebellious cousin Duke Géza.
Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
Chandragupta I is officially crowned as the first Gupta Emperor.
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (died 1419)
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (died 1419)
Born 1361Christopher of Bavaria (died 1448)
Christopher of Bavaria (died 1448)
Born 1416Christopher Marlowe
English playwright, poet and translator (died 1593)
Born 1564Albert VI
Duke of Bavaria (died 1666)
Born 1584Stefano Landi
Italian composer and educator (died 1639)
Born 1587Archibald Campbell
9th Earl of Argyll, Scottish peer (died 1685)
Born 1629Quirinus Kuhlmann
German Baroque poet and mystic (died 1689)
Born 1651Anthony Ashley-Cooper
3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English philosopher and politician (died 1713)
Born 1671Porphyry of Gaza
Greek bishop and saint (born 347)
420Muirchertach mac Néill
King of Ailech (Ireland)
943Roger II of Sicily (born 1095)
Roger II of Sicily (born 1095)
1154Manfred
King of Sicily (born 1232)
1266Margaret of England
Queen consort of Scots (born 1240)
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