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Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.
Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth in Plymouth, England.
Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Spanish, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera.
Hundred Years' War: A French army defeats the English at the Battle of La Brossinière.
Serbian-Turkish wars: Ottoman Turks fought against a Serbian army at the Battle of Maritsa.
Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
The Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
Stephen of Blois's army approached Oxford, beginning the siege of Oxford.
William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah
Arab caliph (died 975)
Born 932Anne of Bavaria
German queen consort (died 1353)
Born 1329Thomas de Ros
8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (died 1430)
Born 1406Engelbert
Count of Nevers, younger son of John I, Duke of Cleves (died 1506)
Born 1462Wolfgang
Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died 1569)
Born 1526Sébastien Leclerc
French painter (died 1714)
Born 1637Nehemiah Grew
English plant anatomist and physiologist (died 1712)
Born 1641Francis Daniel Pastorius
founder of Germantown, Philadelphia (died 1720)
Born 1651Berowulf
bishop of Würzburg
800Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi
Muslim military leader (born c. 790)
862Fujiwara no Teika
Japanese poet
1241Margaret
Maid of Norway Queen of Scotland (born 1283)
1290Gottfried von Hagenau
Alsatian theologian, medical doctor, and poet
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