A look back at history on this date
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Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
The Battle of the Sit River begins two centuries of Mongol horde domination of Rus.
Alexios II Komnenos is crowned Byzantine co-emperor to his father Manuel I Komnenos.
Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.
Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
Yang Jian declares himself Emperor Wen of Sui, ending the Northern Zhou and beginning the Sui dynasty.
Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
Liu Zhiyuan
founder of the Later Han Dynasty (died 948)
Born 895Al-Musabbihi
Fatimid historian and official (died 1030)
Born 977Blanche of Castile
French queen consort (died 1252)
Born 1188Henry the Navigator
Portuguese explorer (died 1460)
Born 1394George
margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1543)
Born 1484Francesco de Layolle
Italian organist and composer (died 1540)
Born 1492Elisabeth of Hesse
princess of Saxony (died 1557)
Born 1502Hindal Mirza
Mughal prince (died 1551)
Born 1519Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia
Christian martyrs
306Landry of Sées
French bishop and saint
480Pelagius I
pope of the Catholic Church
561Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah
Fatimid caliph (born 873)
934Stephen III
king of Hungary (born 1147)
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