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The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
Valletta is made the capital city of Malta.
Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of the Romans.
Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead.
Pope Zosimus is elected following the death of Pope Innocent I.
Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor.
Al-Zamakhshari
Persian scholar and theologian (died 1144)
Born 1075Mary Tudor
Queen of France (died 1533)
Born 1495Cornelis Ketel
Dutch painter (died 1616)
Born 1548Polykarp Leyser the Elder
German theologian (died 1610)
Born 1552Josias I
Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (died 1588)
Born 1554Francis
Duke of Anjou (died 1584)
Born 1555Adam Elsheimer
German painter (died 1610)
Born 1578Manuel de Faria e Sousa
Portuguese historian and poet (died 1649)
Born 1590Edward the Martyr
English king (born 962)
978Ermengarde of Anjou
Duchess of Burgundy (born 1018)
1076Anselm of Lucca
Italian bishop (born 1036)
1086Pope Honorius III (born 1148)
Pope Honorius III (born 1148)
1227Yuri I of Galicia
Yuri I of Galicia
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