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0069 Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy. 
0784 inaugural balloon flight in Ireland.
1053 Godwin, Earl of Wessex.
1205 Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1220 Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies.
1250 Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue.
1415 Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian.
1450 French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary.
1469 Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs.
1472 Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68.
1492 Leonardo da Vinci, Rennaisance man is born.
1493 -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand and Isabella
1502 Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies.
1581 Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal.
1588 Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist
1594 Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1595 Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
1605 Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies
1607 Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78.
1610 Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62
1621 Hugo the Great arrives in France.
1621 John Carver, inaugural governor of Plymouth Colony
1632 Swedish and Saxon army beat Earl Tilly
1637 Valentin Molitor, composer.
1651 Domenico Gabrielli, composer.
1652 Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
1654 England and Netherlands signs peace treaty.
1659 Simon Dach, German poet, dies
1682 John van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)
1684 Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27).
1688 Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer.
1689 French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1689 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
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