A look back at history on this date
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Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
Brussels massacre: An estimated 13 Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, in an anti-Semitic attack, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host.
Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV.
King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo.
A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
Itzam K'an Ahk I
Mayan king (died 686)
Born 626Su Xun
Chinese writer (died 1066)
Born 1009Annamacharya
Hindu saint (died 1503)
Born 1408Edward Seymour
1st Earl of Hertford (died 1621)
Born 1539Louis de Buade de Frontenac
French soldier and governor (died 1698)
Born 1622Gabriël Grupello
Flemish Baroque sculptor (died 1730)
Born 1644Richard Brakenburgh
Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1702)
Born 1650Magnus Stenbock
Swedish field marshal and Royal Councillor (died 1717)
Born 1665Dong Zhuo
Chinese warlord and politician (born 138)
192Constantine the Great
Roman emperor (born 272)
337Empress Genshō of Japan (born 683)
Empress Genshō of Japan (born 683)
748Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (born 1025)
Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (born 1025)
1068Saint Humility
founder of the Vallumbrosan religious order of nuns (born c.1226)
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