A look back at history on this date
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An earthquake destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
German revolutions of 1848-49: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
The Dutch East India Company is established.
The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598-1599).
Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Ovid
Roman poet (died 17)
Born 43 BCMagadu
renamed Wareru, founder of Ramanya Kingdom, renamed Hanthawady Kingdom of Pegu (died 1307)
Born 1253Laurence Hastings
1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1348)
Born 1319Cecily of York (died 1507)
Cecily of York (died 1507)
Born 1469Jerome Emser
German theologian and scholar (died 1527)
Born 1477Ippolito d'Este
Italian cardinal (died 1520)
Born 1479Pierino Belli
Italian soldier and jurist (died 1575)
Born 1502Juan de Ribera
Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1611)
Born 1532Cuthbert
Northumbrian (English) monk, bishop, and saint (born 634)
687Wulfram
archbishop of Sens
703Alfonso II
king of Asturias (Spain) (born 759)
842Ebbo
archbishop of Reims
851Taira no Kiyomori
Japanese general (born 1118)
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