A look back at history on this date
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Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV's new Palace of Versailles.
State funeral of James VI and I (1566-1625) is held at Westminster Abbey.
The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.
The Siege of MĂĄlaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
In Avignon, France, Cardinal Pierre Roger is elected Pope and takes the name Clement VI.
In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope.
The Crusader army of emperor Frederick Barbarossa defeats an army of the Rum Seljuks in the battle of Philomelion.
The Seljuk emirs of Mosul and Mardin defeat the Crusader States of Antioch and Edessa.
In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
Julia Maesa
Roman noblewoman (died 224)
Born Before 160John III of the Palatinate
archbishop of Regensburg (died 1538)
Born 1488Louis
Prince of Condé (died 1569)
Born 1530Albert Frederick
Duke of Prussia (died 1618)
Born 1553Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (died 1681)
Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (died 1681)
Born 1605Stephanus Van Cortlandt
American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (died 1700)
Born 1643Gerard van Swieten
Dutch-Austrian physician (died 1772)
Born 1700Carl Heinrich Graun
German tenor and composer (died 1759)
Born 1701John of Beverley
bishop of York
721Ibn Hisham
Egyptian Muslim historian
833Otto I
Holy Roman Emperor (born 912)
973Bagrat III
1st King of Georgia (born 960)
1014Remigius de FĂ©camp
English monk and bishop
1092See how inflation has changed the value of money since you were born.
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