A look back at history on this date
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The new St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is consecrated.
Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, an Ottoman provincial governor, routs the Habsburg forces commanded by Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria who were besieging Nagykanizsa.
Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
St Elizabeth's flood: A dike in the Grote Hollandse Waard in the Netherlands breaks, killing about 10,000 people.
Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam, claiming spiritual supremacy for the papacy.
Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV for invading the Kingdom of Sicily after promising to recognize papal control over it.
Maginulfo is elected Antipope Sylvester IV in opposition to Pope Paschal II.
The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I.
Itzam K'an Ahk II
Mayan ruler (died 757)
Born 701Emperor Kōnin of Japan (died 782)
Emperor Kōnin of Japan (died 782)
Born 709Lamoral
Count of Egmont (died 1568)
Born 1522Hippolytus Guarinonius
Italian physician and polymath (died 1654)
Born 1571Philipp Ludwig II
Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (died 1612)
Born 1576Eleonora Gonzaga
Italian wife of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1686)
Born 1630Pierre Bayle
French philosopher and author (died 1706)
Born 1647Philibert Commerson
French physician and explorer (died 1773)
Born 1727Odo of Cluny
Frankish abbot and saint (born c. 878)
942Liutgard of Saxony
duchess of Lorraine (born 931)
953Thomas of Bayeux
archbishop of York
1100Adelaide of Maurienne
French queen consort (born 1092)
1154Albert the Bear
margrave of Brandenburg (born c. 1100)
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