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The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.
Lý Nam Đế
first emperor of Vietnam (died 548)
Born 503Ivo of Kermartin
French priest and saint (died 1303)
Born 1253Bartolommeo Bandinelli
Italian sculptor (died 1560)
Born 1493Alonso de Orozco Mena
Spanish Roman Catholic priest (died 1591)
Born 1500Irene di Spilimbergo
Italian Renaissance poet and painter (died 1559)
Born 1538Cristofano Allori
Italian painter (died 1621)
Born 1577Dmitry Pozharsky
Russian prince (died 1642)
Born 1577Johann Gerhard
German theologian and academic (died 1637)
Born 1582Agrippina the Elder
Roman wife of Germanicus (born 14 BC)
33Pope Boniface II
Pope Boniface II
532Al-Musta'in
Abbasid caliph (born 836)
866Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir
Icelandic aristocrat and poet
1271Beatrice of Falkenburg
German queen consort (born c. 1254)
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