A look back at history on this date
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Santiago de Vera becomes sixth governor-general of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes King of Ava.
Hundred Years' War: Bertrand du Guesclin and a French army defeat the Anglo-Navarrese army of Charles the Bad at Cocherel.
Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
Patrician John Crescentius, who has seized control of Rome, selects Pope John XVII as the new pope.
Rebel Turkish warlord Mahmud of Ghazni defeats Samanid Emir Mansur II in battle at Merv.
Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
John II of Cyprus
King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458 (probable; (died 1458)
Born 1418Wolfgang I of Oettingen
German count (died 1522)
Born 1455Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg
German noblewoman (died 1580)
Born 1542John Bulwer
British doctor (died 1656)
Born 1606Pope Innocent XI (died 1689)
Pope Innocent XI (died 1689)
Born 1611Dudley North
English economist and politician (died 1691)
Born 1641William Talbot
1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (died 1782)
Born 1710Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1799)
Born 1718Emperor Wu of Jin
Chinese emperor (born 236)
290Qian Kuan
Chinese nobleman
895Meng Hanqiong
eunuch official of Later Tang
934Fujiwara no Michitaka
Japanese nobleman (born 953)
995Lambert of Arras
Flemish bishop
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