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The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, is founded.
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
Germanicus
Roman general (died 19)
Born 15 BCMargaret of Bohemia
Queen of Hungary (died 1349)
Born 1335Pontormo
Italian painter (died 1557)
Born 1494John Jewel
English bishop (died 1571)
Born 1522William Gilbert
English physician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1603)
Born 1544Elizabeth Carey
Lady Berkeley, English courtier (died 1635)
Born 1576John Maitland
1st Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish politician, Secretary of State, Scotland (died 1682)
Born 1616Marek Sobieski
Polish noble (died 1652)
Born 1628Ségéne
bishop of Armagh (born c. 610)
688Lanfranc
Archbishop of Canterbury
1089Hugues de Payens
first Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born c. 1070)
1136David I of Scotland (born 1083)
David I of Scotland (born 1083)
1153Theobald III
Count of Champagne (born 1179)
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