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April 27 in history

217 sourced entries recorded on April 27, from 395 CE to 2022 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 395Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto (without the knowledge or consent of Rufinus, Praetorian prefect of the East). His seven-year-old half-sister, Galla Placidia, is sent to Rome, where she spends her childhood in the household of Stilicho and his wife Serena.source
  • 629Shahrbaraz usurps the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III, but is himself deposed forty days later by nobility in favour of Borandukht. Khosrow III briefly rules Khorasan in the confusion, until he is assassinated by the governor of the province.source
  • 678Emperor Tenmu holds divination for the purpose of proceeding to the Abstinence Palace.source
  • 711Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Muslim troops (7,000 men) led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar, and begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (now Spain and Portugal). Tariq begins his Islamic conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom, which during the decade he occupies and brings under Umayyad sovereignty.source
  • 909The Min Kingdom (modern-day Fujian province) is established by governor Wang Shenzhi (Prince of Langye), with Fuzhou (known as Changle) as its capital. Wang Shenzhi tries to attract scholars who will help to construct an efficient bureaucracy and tax system.source
  • 1064Alp Arslan succeeds to the throne, as sultan of the Seljuk Empire. He becomes sole ruler of Persia from the river Oxus to the Tigris.source
  • 1103Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, again goes into exile after a dispute with King Henry I over the appointment of bishops and abbots to important Church positions.source
  • 1124David I succeeds Alexander I as the King of Scotland.source
  • 1243Treaty of Bordeaux: King Louis IX (the Saint) and King Henry III agree to a truce that ends the Saintonge War. The truce does not stop the on-going clashes (and further tensions) between France and England.source
  • 1296Battle of Dunbar: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey.source
  • 1311Pope Clement V, having decided to let the Council of Vienne determine the question of whether the late Pope Boniface VIII had been guilty of heresy, officially excuses King Philip IV of France from any condemnation of Boniface.source
  • 1317John XXII orders the Spiritual Franciscans, including the French priest Bernard Délicieux, to come to Avignon and answer for their disobedience. Upon arrival, Délicieux is arrested and interrogated.source
  • 1404At Dijon, in France's Burgundian State, John the Fearless (Jean sans Peur), nephew of Charles VI of France, becomes the new Duke of Burgundy upon the death of his father, Philip the Bold.source
  • 1413The Cabochien revolt begins in Paris as a group of people, led by Simon Caboche, seize the Bastille prison and take as a hostage the Provost of Paris, Pierre des Essarts. The Cabochiens will control the city for the next four months.source
  • 1423Hussite Wars – Battle of Hořice: The Taborites decisively beat the Utraquists.source
  • 1452George of Poděbrady is elected as regent of Bohemia until King Ladislaus of Hungary reaches the age of majority.source
  • 1465Nobility in the Castilian city of Plasencia declare that they will consider King Enrique IV deposed, four months after the Liga Nobiliaria had issued an ultimatum to the King.source
  • 1485King Charles VIII of France convenes a lit de justice, a special session of the Parlement de Paris at Rouen, confirms the Charter to the Normans, the French acknowledgment of the autonomy of the Duchy of Normandy within the Kingdom of France.source
  • 1487In Spain, the town of Vélez in Muslim Granada becomes the first conquest by the invasion by Christian Castile and Aragon, surrendering after 10 days.source
  • 1505In Tbilisi, David X becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Kartli in what is now the Republic of Georgia, upon the death of his father Constantine II.source
  • 1507In India, in what is now the state of Kerala, troops from the Kingdom of Cannanore begin a four-month siege of the Portuguese garrison at the Fort of Saint Angelo. Despite being outnumbered, the 150 defenders of the fort hold out for four months against 60,000 attackers until rescue arrives four months later.source
  • 1507In Germany, the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire convenes at Konstanz and begins a series of reforms.source
  • 1509Pope Julius II places Venice under interdict and excommunication for refusing to cede part of Romagna to papal control.source
  • 1522In the Battle of Bicocca, French and Swiss forces under Odet de Lautrec are defeated by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Milan, and are forced to withdraw into Venetian territory.source
  • 1522In the Battle of Bicocca, French and Swiss forces under Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, the French governor of Milan are defeated by Prospero Colonna's combined Imperial and Papal army in their attempt to retake Milan.source
  • 1532The democratic government of the Republic of Florence in Italy, in existence for more than 400 years since its founding in 1115, is abolished by order of Pope Clement VII in order for a hereditary, and absolute, monarchy to be established. Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, the illegitimate son of Pope Clement, is given full power and the Republic's parliament (the Signoria) and the rule of the executive officer, the Gonfaloniere, come to an end.source
  • 1565Cebu City is established as San Miguel by López de Legazpi, becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.source
  • 1570Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England, and all persons who show allegiance to her, with the bull Regnans in Excelsis.source
  • 1578The Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France, and two favourites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.source
  • 1594After suppressing the Serbian uprising in Banat, the Ottoman Empire rulers carry out the public burning of the bones of Saint Sava in Belgrade.source
  • 1597Johannes Kepler marries Barbara Muhleck.source
  • 1603The first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia is established in Banten by Vice Admiral Wybrand van Warwijck, who sets up a factory to store and package the trading commodity black pepper.source
  • 1622Thirty Years' War – Skirmish at Mingolsheim: Protestant forces under Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich of Baden-Durlach defeat the Imperial forces under Tilly. The Protestants win, but afterwards Tilly links up with a Spanish army under Gonzalo de Córdoba, greatly increasing his strength.source
  • 1624the Norton Baronetcy, of Charlton in the County of Berkshire, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland in favour of English politician Gregory Norton.source
  • 1646King Charles I of England flees from Oxford (where he has been overwintering) in disguise and begins his journey to the Scottish army camp near Newark.source
  • 1650The Battle of Carbisdale begins when a Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands. The Royalists are defeated by a Covenanter army.source
  • 1650Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell joins the siege of Clonmel in person.source
  • 1653the last Irish forces (the remnants of the Confederate's Ulster Army, led by Philip O'Reilly) formally surrender at Cloughoughter in County Cavan to the Cromwellian army ending the Confederate Warssource
  • 1667The blind, impoverished, 58-year-old John Milton seals a contract for publication of Paradise Lost with London printer Samuel Simmons, for an initial payment of £5. The first edition is published in October and sells out in eighteen months.source
  • 1667John Milton seals a contract for publication of Paradise Lost with London printer Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £5. The first edition is published in October and sells out in eighteen months.source
  • 1673Cadmus et Hermione, the first opera written by Jean-Baptiste Lully, premières at the Paris Opera in France.source
  • 167327 April? – Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera, Cadmus et Hermione, is premièred.source
  • 1675Lê Hy Tông becomes the new Emperor of Vietnam at the age of 12, after being appointed as a figurehead by the warlord Trịnh Tạc upon the death of Lê Gia Tông.source
  • 1680Prince Sambhaji and fellow prisoners kill the commander of the Panhala prison and take control of the fort, as he makes plans to become ruler of the Maratha Empire.source
  • 1690Sultan Toloko ibn-Sibori becomes the new Sultan of Ternate, located on the Maluku Islands in the Dutch East Indies after the death of his father, Sultan Sibori Amsterdam.source
  • 1694Frederick Augustus of Wettin, later known as "Augustus the Strong" and the future King of Poland, becomes the new Elector of Saxony upon the death of his 25-year-old older brother, John George IVsource
  • 1695Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700): Russia begins the Azov campaigns (1695–96) against the Ottoman Empire, with 31,000 troops departing to the Ottoman fortress at Azov on the Don River.source
  • 1696an act of the Parliament of England for encouraging linen manufacture in Ireland allows plain linen to be exported to England without an import tariff being applied.source
  • 1706War of the Spanish Succession: After a siege of 14 days, a French and Spanish army fails to take control of Barcelona, which had been captured by Habsburg armies in 1705.source
  • 1739the trial of Henry Barry, 4th Baron Barry of Santry, before the Irish House of Lords for the drunken murder of a tavern servant in Palmerstown the previous summer opens; he is convicted but later pardoned.source
  • 1744Siege of Villafranca (1744): A joint French and Spanish force defeats Britain and Sardinia.source
  • 1749The first official performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in London finishes early, due to the outbreak of fire. The piece had been composed by Handel to commemorate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748.source
  • 1749the first official performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks finishes early due to the outbreak of fire. The piece was composed by Handel for a display in London's Green Park to commemorate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle which ended the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748.source
  • 1760British Army Brigadier General James Murray marches a force of 3,500 men toward Saint-Augustin to confront Marshal Lévis and the French Army.source
  • 1763Outraged by the British success in taking control of land in North America formerly occupied by the French, Pontiac, chief of the Odawa people, convenes a conference near Detroit and convinces the leaders of 17 other nations of the need to attack British outposts.source
  • 1764Eight-year-old child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs a private concert before King George III and Queen Charlotte in Great Britain, and has an encore on May 19.source
  • 1773The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act (coming into force on May 10), designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.source
  • 1773Parliament passes the Tea Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3. c. 44), designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.source
  • 1777American Revolutionary War – Battle of Ridgefield: The British Army defeats Patriot militias, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.source
  • 1784The Marriage of Figaro, written by playwright Pierre Beaumarchais as a sequel to The Barber of Seville, premieres at the Comédie-Française in Paris.source
  • 1786British astronomer William Herschel publishes his first list of his discoveries, Catalogue of One Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars; two additional books are published in 1789 and 1802.source
  • 1796Case of the Lyons Mail: During the night, five highwaymen attack the mail between Paris and Lyon, kill the postmen and steal the funds sent to the armies in Italy.source
  • 1799French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Cassano takes place outside of Milan, as Russian and Austrian troops commanded by General Alexander Suvorov rout the French Army under the command of General Jean Moreau.source
  • 1805Battle of Derne: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "Shores of Tripoli").source
  • 1806The Ferret arrives in London with Te Mahanga (Moehanga) aboard. He is the first Māori known to have visited England. In London he is rejoined by John Savage who left the ship at Cork. While in London Te Mahanga meets King George III and Queen Charlotte.source
  • 1810Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.source
  • 1813War of 1812: Battle of York – United States troops raid and destroy but do not hold the capital of Upper Canada, York (modern-day Toronto).source
  • 1816The Dallas tariff is passed in Congress seeking to protect American manufacturing against an influx of cheaper British goods following the War of 1812.source
  • 1828The London Zoo opens for members of the Zoological Society of London as the first scientific zoo in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1831Charles Albert becomes king of Sardinia after the death of King Charles Felix.source
  • 1831Ending of the First Anglo-Ashanti War (1823–1831).source
  • 1848The second abolition of slavery in France and its colonies initiated by Victor Schœlcher.source
  • 1856The Roskuilde–Korsør extension of the Copenhagen–Roskilde Railway is inaugurated.source
  • 1857First horse race run at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris.source
  • 1861American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in the United States.source
  • 1861President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland.source
  • 1865The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,300 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,800, mostly Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison.source
  • 1865The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,300 passengers (and news of Lincoln's assassination), explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,800, mostly Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison.source
  • 1865Governor of New York Reuben Fenton signs a bill formally creating Cornell University.source
  • 1870Antonio Guzmán Blanco begins his first term as President of Venezuela.source
  • 1880The Royal University of Ireland is founded by charter, allowing the Catholic University of Ireland to re-form as University College Dublin.source
  • 1884Spanish general election, 1884source
  • 1894Canada's largest known landslide occurs in Saint-Alban, Quebec, displacing 185 million m³ of rock and dirt, and leaving a 40 m scar that covers 4.6 million m².source
  • 1894Canada's largest known landslide occurs in Saint-Alban, Quebec. It displaced 185 million m³ of rock and dirt and left a 40 m scar that covered 4.6 million m².source
  • 1895The unique, historic and picturesque Spiral Bridge is constructed to carry U.S. 61 over the Mississippi River at Hastings, Minnesota. It is demolished in 1951.source
  • 1897April 27–6 May – Greco-Turkish War of 1897: Battle of Velestino.source
  • 1897Grant's Tomb is dedicated in New York.source
  • 1899The Apostolic Church of Queensland receives formal recognition as a religious denomination.source
  • 1899A tornado in the U.S. kills numerous people in Kirksville and Newtown, Missouri.source
  • 1900August Hermann Ferdinand Carl Goos is appointed Minister for Iceland.source
  • 1904The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.source
  • 1906Chinese representative Tang Shaoyi and the British Ambassador to China, Ernest Mason Satow, formally signed the Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet. Britain agreed not to occupy Tibet and not to interfere in Tibetan politics.source
  • 1909Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.source
  • 1911Huanghuagang Uprising: In China, rebels take five villages in an attempt to create a power base to fight Imperial rule; those who die are remembered as "The 72 Martyrs" (the event is also called the "Second Guangzhou Uprising" and the "Yellow Flower Mound Revolt").source
  • 1916April 24–30 – The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland. Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood proclaim an Irish Republic, and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin, before surrendering to the British Army. A total of 485 Irish Volunteers, British soldiers and Irish civilians were killed as well as 2,200 wounded and 16 rebel leaders would be executed.source
  • 1926A memorial to the British 54th Division is unveiled in Gaza.source
  • 1927João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, flying from Genoa, Italy, to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.source
  • 1927The Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.source
  • 1927April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.source
  • 1928Amund B. Larsen, linguist (born 1849)source
  • 1931Vera Louise Holmøy, judgesource
  • 19311931 Zangezur earthquakesource
  • 1933The Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham is acquired by the John Lewis Partnership, its first store outside London.source
  • 1933The Stahlhelm veterans' organization joins the Nazi party in Germany.source
  • 1935Sheffield Wednesday beat West Bromwich Albion 4–2 at Wembley Stadium in England to win the FA Cup final.source
  • 193527 April to 6 November – Brussels International Exposition (1935) held in Heysel, near Brussels.source
  • 1938Rolf Olsen, sprint canoer.source
  • 1940Mandatory Palestine and Lebanon play an association football friendly; it is Lebanon's first official match, and Mandatory Palestine's last before they become Israel in 1948.source
  • 1940A friendly association football match between the national teams of Mandatory Palestine and Lebanon takes place at the Maccabiah Stadium in Tel Aviv; Mandatory Palestine beats Lebanon 5–1.source
  • 1942WWII: Conscription crisis in Canada: A national plebiscite is held on the issue of conscription.source
  • 1942Rationing on sugar and women's stockings is introduced. The allowance per person is 12 oz of sugar per week, and one pair of women's stockings every three months.source
  • 1942The Jewish Star of David is required wearing for all Jews in the Netherlands and Belgium; Jews in other Nazi-controlled countries have already been wearing it.source
  • 1943The U.S. Federal Writers' Project ceases operation.source
  • 1945The provisional government of Austria headed by Karl Renner asserts its independence from Germany.source
  • 1949Radio station 1YZ launches in Rotorua on 800 kHz.source
  • 1950Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating the races.source
  • 1955The IMI Uzi submachine gun is introduced in the IDF parade on the Israel's Independence Day.source
  • 1957The SS Moyie takes her final voyage.source
  • 1957The first Pontianak film was released, establishing the horror genre in the local film industry.source
  • 1959National People's Congress elects Liu Shaoqi as Chairman of the People's Republic of China, as a successor of Mao Zedong.source
  • 1959Two Israeli hikers are shot at close range and killed near Masada.source
  • 1960Togo gains independence from France, with the French-administered United Nations Trust Territory being terminated.source
  • 1961Sierra Leone gains its independence from Britain as a Commonwealth realm with Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Sierra Leone.source
  • 1961A container shipping and logistics brand on worldwide, COSCO was founded.source
  • 1961President Kennedy urges newspapers to consider national interest in times of struggle against "a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy", in an address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association.source
  • 1965Police raid Melbourne's Austral Bookshop and seize copies of The Trial of Lady Chatterley, a banned book which recounts of the British obscenity trial of author D. H. Lawrence.source
  • 1966Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union).source
  • 1967Expo 67 Official Opening Ceremony broadcast in colour live via satellite to an estimated worldwide audience of 700 million viewers and listeners.source
  • 1967Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.source
  • 1968Ayub Khan inaugurated Kamalapur railway station in Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).source
  • 1971Presidential election, Park Chung-hee reelected.source
  • 1971Martial law declared; student associations banned.source
  • 1972Ikiza: Burundi government forces begin a 4-month genocide against the Hutu people, killing 100,000–300,000.source
  • 1976A Royal Malaysian Air Force RMAF's Sikorsky S-61 Nuri helicopter was shot down by communist terrorists in Gubir, Kedah killing eleven Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) military personnel. This was the first person killed in action (KIA) in RMAF history.source
  • 1978April 18– 30 – The Khmer Rouge massacres 3,157 civilians in Ba Chúc, Vietnam.source
  • 1980The Dominican embassy siege in Colombia ends with all remaining hostages released after the guerrillas are allowed to escape to Cuba.source
  • 1987The United States Department of Justice declares incumbent Austrian president Kurt Waldheim an "undesirable alien".source
  • 1989A major demonstration occurs in Beijing as part of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.source
  • 1992Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman elected Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1993The country declared its independence from Ethiopia.source
  • 19931993 Zambia national football team plane crash: All members of the Zambia national football team die in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal.source
  • 1994South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of the last vestiges of apartheid. Nelson Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month.source
  • 2002April 26-28 - 2002 Asian Taekwondo Championshipssource
  • 2005The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse.source
  • 2006the Bus Uncle viral video is filmedsource
  • 2007April 26–27 – "Bronze Night": Ethnic Russian riot in Tallinn and other cities in Estonia against the moving of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet World War II memorial statue. 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia begin.source
  • 2008April 27 – 30 – Local elections were held in the country.source
  • 2009Due to the 2009 swine flu pandemic, Azerbaijan severed the import of animal husbandry goods from the United States. The country also introduced sanitary inspections at railroads and in Heydar Aliyev International Airport. All swine-breeding farms were subjected to strict prophylactic control.source
  • 2009A monument to Meshadi Azizbekov in Baku was dismantled. Another monument to Prokopius Dzhaparidze in the capital was permanently removed shortly after.source
  • 2010Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk 4 days after the activation of a €45-billion EU–IMF bailout, triggering the decline of stock markets worldwide and of the euro's value, and furthering a European sovereign debt crisis.source
  • 2011April 25–28 – The 2011 Super Outbreak forms in the Southern, Midwest and Eastern United States with a tornado count of 362; killing 324 and injuring over 2,200.source
  • 2012Dnipropetrovsk explosionssource
  • 2014The Catholic Church simultaneously canonizes Popes John XXIII and John Paul II.source
  • 2016Iraq closes Al Jazeera offices in Iraq and revokes the news network's broadcasting license after accusing it of violating broadcasting regulations.source
  • 2017Dozens of Macedonian nationalists storm the Macedonian parliament after the election of Talat Xhaferi as Speaker of the Assembly.source
  • 2017The 2017 storming of the Macedonian Parliament occurs.source
  • 20182018-19 Korean peace process: Kim Jong Un crosses into South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in, becoming the first North Korean leader to cross the Demilitarized Zone since its creation in 1953.source
  • 2022The European Union accuses Russia of blackmail after gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria are halted by energy giant Gazprom.source
  • 2022Dutch impact investor Oikocredit invests $1.4 million in solar mini-grid provider Weziza to implement a long-awaited rural electrification project.source

Births

  • 1449Asakura Ujikage, 8th head of the Asakura clan of Japan (died 1486)source
  • 1468Frederick Jagiellon, Primate of Poland (died 1503)source
  • 1650Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Queen Consort of Denmark (1670–1699) (died 1714)source
  • 1673Claude Gillot, French artist (died 1722)source
  • 1701Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 (died 1773)source
  • 1737Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (died 1794)source
  • 1748Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (died 1833)source
  • 1759Mary Wollstonecraft, English feminist author (died 1797)source
  • 1779Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russiasource
  • 1791Samuel Morse, American inventor (died 1872)source
  • 1806Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies.source
  • 1820Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (died 1903)source
  • 1822Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (died 1885)source
  • 1896Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (died 1963)source
  • 1910Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (died 1988)source
  • 1927Coretta Scott King, African-American civil rights leader, wife of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (died 2006)source
  • 1963Russell T Davies, Welsh television producer and writersource
  • 1967Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, politiciansource
  • 2007Nguyễn Lê Cẩm Hiền, chess player.source

Deaths

  • 630King Ardashir III, age 9, is murdered after an 18 month reign. He is succeeded by Shahrbaraz who becomes ruler (shah) of the Sasanian Empire.source
  • 630Ardashir III, king of the Persian Empiresource
  • 1051Fulk Bertrand I, count of Provencesource
  • 1160Rudolf I, count of Bregenz and Chur (born 1081)source
  • 1216Sukeko, Japanese princess and empresssource
  • 1272Zita (or Sitha), Italian maid and saint (born 1212)source
  • 1321Nicolò Albertini, Italian friar, cardinal and statesmansource
  • 1353Simeon of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow and Vladimirsource
  • 1403Maria of Bosnia, Countess of Helfenstein (born 1335)source
  • 1404Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (born 1342)source
  • 1509Margaret of Brandenburg, German abbess of the Poor Clares monastery at Hof (born 1453)source
  • 1521Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (born 1480)source
  • 1521Battle of Mactan: Ferdinand Magellan is killed in the Philippines when he confronts Lapulapu, the chief of the island.source
  • 1565Osanna of Cattaro, Dominican visionary and anchoress (born 1493)source
  • 1599Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1538)source
  • 1599Maeda Toshiie (born 1538), generalsource
  • 1605Pope Leo XI dies suddenly from a cold at the age of 69, after a reign of only 26 days, prompting the return of the cardinals for the second papal conclave in less than two months. During his brief reign, the Pope issued a bill requiring secret balloting in papal conclaves.source
  • 1607Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell, Governor of Lecale (born 1560)source
  • 1656Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (born 1596)source
  • 1656Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter (born 1592)source
  • 1678Nicolas Roland, French priest and founder (born 1642)source
  • 1682Hŏ Mok, Korean politician, poet and scholar (born 1595)source
  • 1702Jean Bart, French naval commander and privateer (born 1650)source
  • 1794Sir William Jones, British philologist (born 1746)source
  • 1813Zebulon Pike, American general (born 1779)source
  • 1827Joaquín Blake, military general, commander of the Army of Galicia during the Peninsular War (born 1759)source
  • 1831Charles Felix of Sardinia, King of Sardinia (born 1765)source
  • 1867Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, after whom Big Ben may be named (born 1802)source
  • 1882Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, writer (born 1803)source
  • 1886Henry Hobson Richardson, American architect (born 1838)source
  • 1896Sir Henry Parkes, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (born 1815)source
  • 1910Ángel Guirola, politician (born 1826)source
  • 1915Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (born 1872)source
  • 1932Hart Crane, American poet (born 1899)source
  • 1937Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer, politician (born 1891)source
  • 1938Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (born 1859)source
  • 1972Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (born 1909)source
  • 1978Willow Island disaster – In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.source
  • 1978Saur Revolution – Afghanistan's president Mohammad Daoud Khan and his family are murdered; Nur Muhammad Taraki succeeds him, beginning the Afghan conflict.source