A look back at history on this date
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Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old ZĂŒrich War.
St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
A coalition of north-east German towns, counts and princes defeats king Valdemar II of Denmark in the battle of Bornhöved.
Massacre at BĂ©ziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
Joan of England
Queen of Scotland (died 1238)
Born 1210John Scrope
5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English Baron (died 1498)
Born 1437Zhu Youyuan
Ming Dynasty politician (died 1519)
Born 1476Philip I of Castile (died 1506)
Philip I of Castile (died 1506)
Born 1478Leonhard Thurneysser
scholar at the court of the Elector of Brandenburg (died 1595)
Born 1531Katarina Stenbock
queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1621)
Born 1535Anthony Browne
Sheriff of Surrey and Kent (died 1592)
Born 1552Mary Wriothesley
Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (died 1607)
Born 1552Wu Chengsi
nephew of Chinese sovereign Wu Zetian
698Meinhard I
Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (born c. 1200)
1258Henry I of Navarre
Count of Champagne and Brie and King of Navarre
1274Sir John de Graham
Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
1298Louis
Count of Gravina (born 1324)
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