A look back at history on this date
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As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
Eudoxia Epiphania
daughter of Byzantine emperor Heraclius
Born 611Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (died 1129)
Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (died 1129)
Born 1053Emperor Sutoku of Japan (died 1164)
Emperor Sutoku of Japan (died 1164)
Born 1119Elizabeth of Hungary (died 1231)
Elizabeth of Hungary (died 1231)
Born 1207Andrzej Krzycki
Polish archbishop (died 1537)
Born 1482Archduchess Anna of Austria (died 1590)
Archduchess Anna of Austria (died 1590)
Born 1528John Sigismund Zápolya
King of Hungary (died 1571)
Born 1540Thomas Howard
21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (died 1646)
Born 1585Crescentius the Elder
Italian politician and aristocrat
984Fujiwara no Akimitsu
Japanese bureaucrat (born 944)
1021Haakon II Sigurdsson
king of Norway (born 1147)
1162Tile Kolup
German impostor claiming to be Frederick II
1285Benedict XI
pope of the Catholic Church (born 1240)
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