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Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
Robert de Sorbon
French minister and theologian, founded the Collège de Sorbonne (died 1274)
Born 1201Salimbene di Adam
Italian historian and scholar (died 1290)
Born 1221Denis of Portugal (died 1325)
Denis of Portugal (died 1325)
Born 1261Peter I of Cyprus (died 1369)
Peter I of Cyprus (died 1369)
Born 1328Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac
French mathematician, poet, and scholar (died 1638)
Born 1581Leopold V
Archduke of Austria (died 1632)
Born 1586Nicolaes Tulp
Dutch anatomist and politician (died 1674)
Born 1593Thomas Weston
4th Earl of Portland, English noble (died 1688)
Born 1609Ghislain
Frankish anchorite and saint
680Al-Tirmidhi
Persian scholar and hadith compiler (born 824)
892Pope Clement II
Pope Clement II
1047Philip I of Namur
Marquis of Namur (born 1175)
1212Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher (born 1175)
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