A look back at history on this date
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A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odesa, Ukraine.
American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
Warsaw University is established.
Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends hostilities in Finland.
The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize).
The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
The current Saint Peter's Basilica is consecrated in Rome, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site.
The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
Frederick I
Count Palatine of Simmern (died 1480)
Born 1417Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (died 1526)
Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (died 1526)
Born 1464Pier Luigi Farnese
Duke of Parma (died 1547)
Born 1503Robert Sidney
1st Earl of Leicester, English poet and politician (died 1626)
Born 1563Charles I of England
Scotland, and Ireland (died 1649)
Born 1600Lieuwe van Aitzema
Dutch historian and diplomat (died 1669)
Born 1600Eustache Le Sueur
French painter and educator (died 1655)
Born 1617Jean-Antoine Nollet
French priest and physicist (died 1770)
Born 1700Pope Gelasius I
Pope Gelasius I
496Pope Anastasius II
Pope Anastasius II
498Yan Keqiu
Chinese chief strategist
930Theodoric II
Margrave of Lower Lusatia (born c. 990)
1034Malik-Shah I
Seljuk Sultan (born 1055)
1092See how inflation has changed the value of money since you were born.
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