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The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell are hanged, the last of those to be executed in the Salem witch trials.
Eighty Years' War: A Spanish force led by the Marquis del Vasto successfully fights its way past a joint English/Dutch ambush in the Battle of Zutphen.
The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian cavalry force in the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters.
The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
Richeza of Poland
Queen of Hungary (died 1075)
Born 1013Ibn Khallikan
Iraqi scholar and judge (died 1282)
Born 1211Thomas le Despenser
1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1400)
Born 1373Tenali Rama
poet in the court of Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire (died 1528)
Born 1480Anne of Cleves
Queen consort of England (died 1557)
Born 1515Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin
German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (died 1590)
Born 1547Matthäus Merian
Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (died 1650)
Born 1593Anne of Austria
Queen and regent of France (died 1666)
Born 1601He Jin
Chinese general and regent (born 135)
189Pope Felix IV
Pope Felix IV
530Zhao Zong
emperor of the Tang Dynasty (born 867)
904Wichmann II
Frankish nobleman
967Ouyang Xiu
Chinese historian, poet, and politician (born 1007)
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