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Battle of Gallipoli: The Venetians under Pietro Loredan defeat a much larger Ottoman fleet off Gallipoli.
Philip VI is crowned King of France.
Mongol-Jin war: The Mongols enter Kaifeng after a successful siege and begin looting in the fallen capital of the Jin dynasty.
Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
Battle of Monte Porzio: A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel.
Antipope Victor IV gives up his claim to the papacy due to the instigation of Bernard of Clairvaux.
Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
Election of pope Paul I following the death of pope Stephen II in the previous month.
A catastrophic earthquake hits Antioch, killing several thousands including patriarch Euphrasius.
The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city.
Charles
Prince of Viana (died 1461)
Born 1421Victor
Duke of MĂŒnsterberg, Reichsgraf, Duke of MĂŒnsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (died 1500)
Born 1443Antun VranÄiÄ
Croatian archbishop (died 1573)
Born 1504George Carew
1st Earl of Totnes, English general and administrator (died 1629)
Born 1555Virginia de' Medici
Italian princess (died 1615)
Born 1568Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
Bavarian field marshal (died 1632)
Born 1594Anne
Duchess of Montpensier, French princess (died 1693)
Born 1627Charles II of England (died 1685)
Charles II of England (died 1685)
Born 1630Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona
Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona
931Renauld I
Count of Nevers
1040Christopher I of Denmark (born 1219)
Christopher I of Denmark (born 1219)
1259James II of Majorca (born 1243)
James II of Majorca (born 1243)
1311Pope John VIII of Alexandria
Coptic pope
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