A look back at history on this date
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Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
The attempt to install Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England collapses after only nine days.
The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
Italian War of 1542-46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill: The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
Arab-Byzantine wars: Battle of Apamea: Fatimids defeat a Byzantine army near Apamea.
Battle of Simancas: King Ramiro II of León defeats the Moorish army under Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III near the city of Simancas.
Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
Muhammad al-Bukhari
Persian scholar (died 870)
Born 810Baibars
sultan of Egypt (died 1277)
Born 1223William VIII
Marquis of Montferrat (died 1483)
Born 1420Conrad Vorstius
Dutch theologian (died 1622)
Born 1569Richard Leveridge
English singer-songwriter (died 1758)
Born 1670Giuseppe Castiglione
Italian missionary and painter (died 1766)
Born 1688Heinrich Christian Boie
German author and poet (died 1806)
Born 1744Marianna Auenbrugger
Austrian pianist and composer (died 1782)
Born 1759Symmachus
pope of the Catholic Church
514Li Shigu
Chinese general (born 778)
806Kyunyeo
Korean monk and poet (born 917)
973Damian Dalassenos
Byzantine general (born 940)
998Adalberon
French bishop
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