A look back at history on this date
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Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.
Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.
Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.
Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
An earthquake hits Syria, causing multiple casualties and damages in Antioch, Damascus and Mosul.
Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
Alphonso
Earl of Chester (died 1284)
Born 1273Charles I
Duke of Orléans (died 1465)
Born 1394John Stafford
1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (died 1473)
Born 1427Pietro Torrigiano
Italian sculptor (died 1528)
Born 1472Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar
Spanish poet and painter (died 1641)
Born 1583Philip Massinger
English dramatist (died 1640)
Born 1583Henry Grey
10th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (died 1651)
Born 1594John
Count of Nassau-Idstein (1629-1677) (died 1677)
Born 1603Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (born 596)
Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (born 596)
654Bagrat IV of Georgia (born 1018)
Bagrat IV of Georgia (born 1018)
1072Leszek I the White
High Duke of Poland (born c. 1186)
1227Magnús Óláfsson
King of Mann and the Isles
1265Hugh Despenser the Younger
English courtier (born 1296)
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