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755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during Chinese Tang Dynasty 1598 -…
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644 - Uthman ibn Affan, companion of Muhammad, appointed 3rd Caliph of Islam 1287 - During St. Lucia's Flood in Northwest Netherlands…
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1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world 1642 - Dutch navigator Abel Tasman sighted…
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627 - Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius beats Sassanid forces during Byzantine-Sassanid War 1408 - Order of the Dragon: The Order…
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1620 - Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore at in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts [NS, Dec 21] 1792…
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1520 - Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory…
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536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire…
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1863 - Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South 1941 - US and Britain declare war…
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43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated in Formiae 1909 - Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first…
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1240 - Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive 1865 -…
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771 - Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman 1349 - 500 Jews of…
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1534 - Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad 1563 - Council of Trent holds its last session, after 18 years. Last…