A look back at history on this date
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Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests.
Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
Coronation of Francis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral, where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne.
Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
The Treaty of Constantinople ends the 16-year-long First Ottoman-Venetian War.
A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
Fourteen-year-old Edward III ascends the throne of England after his father the king is forced to abdicate by Queen Isabella and her lover, Roger Mortimer.
In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.
After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
Leo IV the Khazar
Byzantine emperor (died 780)
Born 750Katharina of Hanau
German countess regent (died 1460)
Born 1408Paul Hofhaimer
Austrian organist and composer (died 1537)
Born 1459Anne of Brittany (probable; (died 1514)
Anne of Brittany (probable; (died 1514)
Born 1477Giovanni Morone
Italian cardinal (died 1580)
Born 1509Adolf
Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (died 1586)
Born 1526Govert Flinck
Dutch painter (died 1660)
Born 1615Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (died 1691)
Born 1627Gregory Nazianzus
theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (born 329)
390Gaiseric
king of the Vandals (born 389)
477Ibrahim ibn al-Walid
Umayyad caliph
750Pope Gregory IV (born 795)
Pope Gregory IV (born 795)
844Charles of Provence
Frankish king (born 845)
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