A look back at history on this date
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James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
Frederick I crowns himself King in Prussia in Königsberg.
Henry Morgan captures Panama.
The magnitude 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami.
Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
General Magnentius is proclaimed emperor by Roman aristocrats discontent with the rule of emperor Constans.
Sir Philip Courtenay
English noble (died 1463)
Born 1404Antonio Trivulzio
seniore, Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1508)
Born 1457Isabella Jagiellon
Queen of Hungary (died 1559)
Born 1519Catherine
Duchess of Braganza (died 1614)
Born 1540François-Michel le Tellier
Marquis de Louvois, French politician, Secretary of State for War (died 1691)
Born 1641Damaris Cudworth Masham
English philosopher and theologian (died 1708)
Born 1659Antoine Houdar de la Motte
French author (died 1731)
Born 1672Lionel Sackville
1st Duke of Dorset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1765)
Born 1688Publius Clodius Pulcher
Roman politician (born 93 BC)
52 BCLeo I
Byzantine emperor (born 401)
474Odilo
duke of Bavaria
748Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun
ruler of the Tulunids, murdered (born 864)
896Tamar of Georgia (born 1160)
Tamar of Georgia (born 1160)
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