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Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
The Sultanate of Brunei cedes Sarawak to James Brooke.
A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.
Second Tantrik Coronation of Shivaji.
The Battle of Rowton Heath in England occurs, ending in a Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles I.
Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
The Second Council of Nicaea begins at the Church of Holy Wisdom in the city of Nicaea in Bithynia.
Vitellius
Roman emperor (died 69)
Born 15'Adud al-Dawla
Buyid king (died 983)
Born 936Ralph de Stafford
1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (died 1372)
Born 1301Anne of Cyprus
Duchess of Savoy (probable; (died 1462)
Born 1418Shekha of Amarsar
Rajput chieftain (died 1488)
Born 1433Georg von Frundsberg
German Knight and landowner (died 1528)
Born 1473Gerolamo Cardano
Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (died 1576)
Born 1501Guru Ram Das
fourth Sikh Guru (died 1581)
Born 1534Pope Liberius
Pope Liberius
366Pepin the Short
Frankish king (born 714)
768Gao Pian
general of the Tang Dynasty (born 821)
887Hermann of Reichenau
German composer, mathematician, and astronomer (born 1013)
1054Welf II
Duke of Bavaria (born 1072)
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