A look back at history on this date
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Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.
Election of Count Adolf of Nassau as King of the Romans in the Dominican monastery of Frankfurt.
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem marries Henry II, Count of Champagne.
The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
Afonso III of Portugal (died 1279)
Afonso III of Portugal (died 1279)
Born 1210Juan Manuel
Prince of Villena (died 1348)
Born 1282Preczlaw of Pogarell
Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (died 1376)
Born 1310Rupert of Germany
Count Palatine of the Rhine (died 1410)
Born 1352Guru Amar Das
Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (died 1574)
Born 1479Stanislaus Hosius
Polish cardinal (died 1579)
Born 1504Gabriel
comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (died 1574)
Born 1530Thomas Cecil
1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (died 1623)
Born 1542Gerontius
Archbishop of Milan
465Casimir II the Just
Polish son of Bolesław III Wrymouth (born 1138)
1194Hubert de Burgh
1st Earl of Kent, English justiciar (born c. 1160)
1243Constantine Palaiologos
Byzantine general (born 1261)
1306Charles II of Naples (born 1254)
Charles II of Naples (born 1254)
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