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December 1 in history

248 sourced entries recorded on December 1, from 660 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 900Emperor Zhao Zong is deposed and forced by a group of Tang eunuchs led by Liu Jishu to abdicate the throne to his son, Crown Prince Li Yu (until 901).source
  • 907The Wuyue Kingdom is founded by the warlord Qian Liu in Hangzhou. His proclaims himself king, his power is centered in Jiangsu province (Eastern China).source
  • 1145Eugene III issues the bull Quantum praedecessores, calling for the Second Crusade. At Christmas, King Louis VII announces his intention of making a pilgrimage which becomes part of the Crusade.source
  • 1170Becket controversy: Henry II sends word that his conflict with Thomas Becket is at an end, and his lands will be restored. Becket returns to England, landing at Sandwich.source
  • 1247A rebellion arises among the Muslim subjects in the region of Valencia. As a punishment, King James I of Aragon ("the Conqueror"), issues an order of expulsion of the Muslims from his realm, leading numerous people into exile in Andalusia and North Africa.source
  • 1299Battle of Falconaria: Sicilian forces under King Frederick II defeat Philip I of Taranto. During the battle, Philip is taken prisoner.source
  • 1325King Edward II of England makes one final attempt to save his marriage to Queen Isabella, and sends her a letter ordering her to return from France to England immediately, writing that "Oftentimes have we informed you, both before an after the homage, of our great desire to have you with us, and of our grief of heart at your long absence," and adds that he is aware of her affair with Roger Mortimer and that "ceasing from all pretenses, delays and excuses, you come to us with all the haste you can." She declines to come back.source
  • 1390A treaty is signed between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of France at Edinburgh and witnessed by Walter Forrester.source
  • 1390Angelo Corraro is named as the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, the Roman Catholic envoy to Byzantium and the Eastern Orthodox Church, by Pope Boniface IX. Corraro is chosen in 1406 as Pope Gregory XII.source
  • 1412King Henry IV of England issues a summons of the English Parliament for his final time, directing the members of Commons and the House of Lords to assemble on February 3.source
  • 1413King Henry V of England summons the English Parliament to assemble on April 30 at Westminster.source
  • 1421The 11th and last Parliament of King Henry V assembles at Westminster and elects Richard Baynard as Speaker of the House of Commons.source
  • 1440Representatives of the Swiss canton of Zurich sign the Peace of Lucerne, bringing a temporary halt to the Old Zurich War.source
  • 1477King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary signs a treaty with Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor at Korneuburg, ending the Hungarian blockade of Vienna in return for Frederick's support for making Matthias King of Bohemia and an indemnity of 100,000 florins.source
  • 1494The Irish Parliament opens at Drogheda on the first Monday after Saint Andrew's Day as summoned by Sir Edward Poynings, to pass the two "Poynings' Laws" restricting Irish self-government. The more drastic of the two laws provides that laws already enacted in England apply to Ireland as well, while the other law directs that the Irish Parliament cannot be summoned without prior approval by the King of England.source
  • 1494Edward Poynings assembles the Parliament of Ireland in Drogheda to tell it that it is thereafter to be placed under the authority of the Privy Council of England by Poynings' Law (1495).source
  • 1509Prince Le Oanh is installed as the new Emperor of Vietnam by a coup d'etat against his cousin, Emperor Le Uy Muc, and is enthroned at the age of 14 as Emperor Le Tuong Duc. Uy Muc is granted his request to be allowed to commit suicide rather than to be executed.source
  • 1532(5th waxing of Pyatho 894 ME) The Burmese Army under Min Bin marches into Dhaka, capital of Bengal without any resistance.source
  • 1561In the Kingdom of Kongo, Bernardo Mpemba a Nzinga overthrows his brother, King Afonso II, and becomes King Bernardo I.source
  • 1585Hadim Mesih Pasha is appointed the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Murad III.source
  • 1618Captain Nicholas Pynnar begins his Survey of the Escheated Counties of Ulster.source
  • 1626Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh, tyrannical Governor of Jerusalem, is forced out.source
  • 1640The end of the Iberian Union of Spain and Portugal begins, as a revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie causes John IV of Portugal to be acclaimed as king, thus ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, and the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal's new dynasty, the House of Braganza, until the end of the Portuguese Restoration War in 1668.source
  • 1640Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg begins to rule.source
  • 1641The English Parliament presents the Grand Remonstrance to King Charles, who makes no response to it until Parliament has the document published and released to the general public.source
  • 1642Storming of Farnham Castle: Parliamentarian forces easily take the Surrey stronghold from Royalist defenders.source
  • 1648the King, under arrest, is moved from the Isle of Wight to Hurst Castle on the mainland.source
  • 1651The Vardø witch trials starts.source
  • 1656A treaty of alliance is signed between the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.source
  • 1678The Test Act provides that members of both the House of Lords and House of Commons of England must swear an anti-Catholic oath, before taking office.source
  • 1693The Order of the Elephant in its current form is instituted.source
  • 1707HDMS Justitia is launched at the Royal Danish Dockyard.source
  • 1709William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.source
  • 1718The brother-in-law of Charles XII and spouse of Princess Ulrika Eleonora, Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, discontinue the siege of Fredrikshald.source
  • 1737The newly erected lighthouse on Flat Holm is lit for the first time.source
  • 1749Sultan Azim ud-Din I, recently forced to flee to Manila after being driven from the throne of Sultanate of Sulu elsewhere in the Philippine Islands, announces his intention to convert from Sunni Islam to become baptized as a Christian within the Roman Catholic Church. He changes his name to Fernando after being baptized.source
  • 1764Siege of Darbar Sahib (1764): 30 Sikhs defend the holy site of Golden Temple against 30,000 Afghans.source
  • 1768The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya, Norway.source
  • 1768The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya.source
  • 1774A boycott called by the Continental Congress goes into effect, as participating merchants and supporters cease the importation or consumption of products from Great Britain, Ireland or the British West Indies.source
  • 1783Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert make the first manned flight in a hydrogen-filled gas balloon in Paris.source
  • 1787Kinnaird Head Lighthouse first illuminated.source
  • 1792HDMS Nidelven is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.source
  • 1808Tsar Alexander I of Russia proclaims Finland a part of Russia.source
  • 1810November 29–December 3 – Invasion of Isle de France: British forces force the French to surrender Isle de France (Mauritius).source
  • 1811During a tour of Van Diemen's Land, Governor Macquarie gave directions for the layout of Hobart. There was a central square and seven streets named Macquarie, Liverpool, Argyle, Elizabeth, Murray, Harrington and Collins.source
  • 1820Campbelltown, New South Wales is established.source
  • 1821History of the Dominican Republic: On the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, General José Núñez de Cáceres ends the España Boba era of Spanish rule in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo by establishing the Republic of Spanish Haiti. It will last for three months before being invaded by Haiti.source
  • 1822Pedro I is crowned as the first Emperor of Brazil.source
  • 1824U.S. presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).source
  • 1825December 1 (O.S.)/November 19 (N.S.) – Nicholas I of Russia succeeds his older brother Alexander I.source
  • 1825December 1 (November 19 O.S.) – Nicholas I succeeds his brother Alexander I, as emperor.source
  • 1828Decembrist revolution (Argentina): Juan Lavalle, returning to Buenos Aires with troops that fought in the Cisplatine War, deposes the provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.source
  • 1833Launch of Le Ménestrel, a weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.source
  • 1835Catholic University of Mechelen relocates to Leuven, becoming Catholic University of Leuven.source
  • 1838The first annual Hobart Regatta is held.source
  • 1856Under the County and Borough Police Act, in any county or area of England and Wales where a police force has not already been established, the Justices of the Peace must from this date take steps to create one according to nationally defined standards.source
  • 1858The recently formed Odontological Society of London opens the Dental Hospital of London.source
  • 1860The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.source
  • 1860Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.source
  • 1861American Civil War: Trent Affair – The British government dispatches its response, partly drafted by Prince Albert (a fortnight before his death).source
  • 1862In his State of the Union address, President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery, as he ordered ten weeks earlier in his Emancipation Proclamation.source
  • 1863The first steam-operated passenger railway in New Zealand opens at Christchurch in South Island.source
  • 1864The Great Fire of Brisbane breaks out in Australia.source
  • 1864Great Fire of Brisbanesource
  • 1872Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada becomes constitutional President of Mexico.source
  • 1872Responsible government is granted to the Cape of Good Hope and the British Governor's powers are significantly curtailed.source
  • 1872Responsible government is granted to Cape Colony (South Africa). Sir John Molteno, first Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope, forms the first Cape Cabinet which immediately plans to establish Cape Government Railways and take over the operation of all private railways in the Colony.source
  • 1874Iceland is granted a constitution and limited home rule from Denmark.source
  • 1876SS Georgette runs aground near Busselton, Western Australia; Grace Bussell and Sam Isaacs help to rescue the passengers.source
  • 1877The Aarhus–Ryomgård section of the Grenaa Line railway is opened.source
  • 1880Manuel González Flores becomes the 31st President of Mexico.source
  • 1880Natal – Botha's Hill to Pietermaritzburg, 41 mi 9 ch.source
  • 1883Battleford Industrial School, the first government-operated Indian residential school opens in Canada.source
  • 1884Porfirio Díaz returns as President of Mexico, an office he will hold until 1911.source
  • 1884Kowie – Port Alfred to Grahamstown, 44 mi.source
  • 1884American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys, who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy (the cowboys have been terrorizing the area's Hispanos, and Baca is working against them).source
  • 1885Dr Pepper is served for the first time (as acknowledged by the U.S. Patent Office; the exact date of Dr. Pepper's invention is unknown).source
  • 1887Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Pekingsource
  • 1887Signing of the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking, when sovereignty over Macau was surrendered to Portugal, or as in the Chinese interpretation, only administrative rights were transferredsource
  • 1888The Washington Bridge opens to permit-holding pedestrians over the Harlem River in New York City, connecting the boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx.source
  • 1889December 1–31 – With 15.80 in of rainfall, Los Angeles has its wettest calendar month since records began in 1877.source
  • 1896Archaeologist Alois Anton Führer, Nepalese General Khadga Samsher Rana and an expedition rediscover the great stone pillar of Ashoka at Lumbini, traditionally the spot of the birthplace of Gautama Buddha, after using Faxian's records.source
  • 1898W H Bartlett films the opening of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition. The film is screened on Christmas Eve at Bartlett's studio – the first public screening of a New Zealand film.source
  • 1898The French government decrees a ban on imports of fruit and plants from the United States.source
  • 1900A census of the German Empire was taken. Provisional figures showed a population of 56,345,014.source
  • 1906Wales lose 11–0 to South Africa in the first encounter between the two countries.source
  • 1911Outer Mongolia, the predecessor of modern-day Mongolia, is declared independent from the Chinese Empire.source
  • 1913Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.source
  • 1913Buenos Aires Underground, the first in South America, opens.source
  • 1916An armed confrontation in Athens between the Kingdom of Greece and the Allied Powers, arising from a dispute over Greece's neutrality in World War I, followed by reprisals and riots against Greek supporters of the Allies marking the height of the National Schism.source
  • 1917Six o’clock closing of hotel bars is introduced as a wartime measure.source
  • 1917December 1–31 – A severe cold wave in Interior Alaska produces the coldest recorded mean monthly temperatures in the United States. Fort Yukon averages −48.3 and Eagle −46.source
  • 1918The Union of Alba Iulia is proclaimed: Following the March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina, Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania.source
  • 1918A council of Transylvanian Romanians declare union 26 counties of the Kingdom of Hungary until the Tisza river with Romania in Gyulafehérvár (now Alba Iulia)source
  • 1919American-born Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, becomes the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, having become the second to be elected on November 28.source
  • 1919Toyo Lenoleum, later Toli was founded in Hyogo Prefecture.source
  • 1919Tartu University is re-opened.source
  • 1922The Aberdeen Press & Journal is first published under this title following a merger.source
  • 1923In Italy, the Gleno Dam on the Gleno River, in the Valle di Scalve in the northern province of Bergamo, bursts, killing at least 356 people.source
  • 1923In Italy, the Gleno Dam on the Gleno River, in the Valle di Scalve in the northern province of Bergamo bursts, killing at least 356 peoplesource
  • 1924A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia.source
  • 1924Estonian coup d'état attempt.source
  • 1925The Locarno Treaties are signed in London, intended to secure the post-war continental European territorial settlement.source
  • 1927Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong Mei-ling in Shanghai.source
  • 1928Latin alphabet law takes effect.source
  • 19281928 Talca earthquakesource
  • 1932Germany returns to the World Disarmament Conference after the other powers agree to accept gleichberechtigung "in principle". Henceforward, it is clear that Germany will be allowed to rearm beyond the limits imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.source
  • 1932The Palestine Post (now The Jerusalem Post) is published for the first time.source
  • 1937Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Nanjing begins.source
  • 1939The Soviet Union establishes the Finnish Democratic Republic puppet state in Terijoki.source
  • 1940Manuel Ávila Camacho takes office as President of Mexico.source
  • 1941Self-government of Estonia, headed by Hjalmar Mäe, is appointed by German military administration.source
  • 1942Gasoline rationing begins in the United States.source
  • 1942The Soviet cruiser Soviet cruiser Voroshilov and destroyer Soviet destroyer Soobrazitelny shell Snake Island, damaging the radio station, barracks and lighthouse on the island, but fail to inflict significant losses.source
  • 1943Endesa (Chile) is created as a subsidiary of CORFO.source
  • 1944Edward Stettinius, Jr. becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration, filling the seat left by Cordell Hull.source
  • 1946Miguel Alemán Valdés takes office as President of Mexico.source
  • 1946Nutts Corner opens as Northern Ireland's principal civil airport, replacing Belfast Harbour.source
  • 1948José Figueres Ferrer abolishes the army in Costa Rica, making it the first country in history to do so.source
  • 1948The body of an unidentified man is found on a beach in Adelaide, becoming known as the Somerton Man.source
  • 1952Adolfo Ruiz Cortines takes office as President of Mexico.source
  • 1952The New York Daily News carries a front-page story announcing that Christine Jorgensen, a transsexual woman in Denmark, has become the recipient of the first successful sexual reassignment operation.source
  • 1954The first Hyatt Hotel, The Hyatt House Los Angeles, opens on the grounds of Los Angeles International Airport. It is the first hotel in the world built on an airport property.source
  • 1955In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger, and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.source
  • 1957In Indonesia, Sukarno announces the nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses.source
  • 1957The Malayan Public Records Office (now known as the Malaysian National Archives or Arkib Negara) was formed.source
  • 1958Adolfo López Mateos takes office as President of Mexico.source
  • 1958Francis Walder awarded the Prix Goncourt for his Saint-Germain ou la négociation.source
  • 1959Cold War: Antarctic Treaty – 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty that sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent (the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War).source
  • 1959Hana Bank, present day of Hana Financial Group was founded.source
  • 1960A Soviet satellite containing live animals (dogs Pcholka and Mushka) and plants is launched into orbit. Due to a malfunction, it burns up during re-entry.source
  • 1960Patrice Lumumba, deposed premier of the Republic of the Congo, is arrested by the troops of Colonel Joseph Mobutu.source
  • 1960Striking coal miners at the Miike Coal Mine in Japan return to work, ending the unprecedented 312-day-long Miike Struggle.source
  • 1961Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag, and changes its name to West Papua.source
  • 1961Tallinn Botanic Garden was established.source
  • 1964Gustavo Díaz Ordaz takes office as President of Mexico.source
  • 1966First Malaysia Plan was implemented.source
  • 1967The RMS Queen Mary is retired. Her place is taken by the Queen Elizabeth 2.source
  • 1967Modhumita cinema hall opens in Dacca, screening the 1963 Hollywood epic Cleopatra.source
  • 1969Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held. September 14 is the first of the 366 days of the year selected, meaning that anyone born on September 14 in the years from 1944 to 1951 would be the first to be summoned. On January 4, 1970, The New York Times will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random".source
  • 1970Luis Echeverría becomes president of Mexico.source
  • 1970The Basque ETA (separatist group) kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián.source
  • 1973Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.source
  • 1976Sir Douglas Nicholls is appointed the 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.source
  • 1976José López Portillo takes office as President of Mexico.source
  • 1981An Inex-Adria Aviopromet McDonnell Douglas MD-80 strikes a mountain peak and crashes while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.source
  • 1982Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.source
  • 1983Lao National Television is established.source
  • 1984A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries begin to improve.source
  • 1984The Light Rail Transit in Manila begins service with the opening of its southern segment, as the first rapid transit service in Southeast Asia.source
  • 1984Manila LRT Line 1 is opened.source
  • 1985The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public in the US.source
  • 1985The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (Spanish: Organización e Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación la Ciencia y la Cultura; OEI) is created.source
  • 1987NASA announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.source
  • 1988Carlos Salinas de Gortari takes office as President of Mexico.source
  • 1988The first World AIDS Day is held.source
  • 1988The hijacking of a LAZ-687 bus with schoolchildren takes place in Ordzhonikidze.source
  • 1989A military coup attempt begins in the Philippines against the government of Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino. It is crushed by United States intervention ending by December 9.source
  • 1989In a meeting with Pope John Paul II, General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev pledges greater religious freedom for citizens of the Soviet Union.source
  • 1989In a meeting with Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev pledges greater religious freedom for Soviet citizens.source
  • 19901 December–10 December – South American Games take place in Lima.source
  • 1990Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first land connection between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe for around 8,000 years.source
  • 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Ukrainians vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum.source
  • 1991Presidential elections were held in the country.source
  • 1994Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.source
  • 1996The establishment of the Council of Aboriginal Affairs.source
  • 1997In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste peoplesource
  • 1997The Palestinian Information Center news website is established in Arabic.source
  • 1998Ireland formally relinquishes its territorial claim over Northern Ireland and recognizes the United Kingdom's sovereignty there.source
  • 1999NTN Entertainment founded, as predecessor name was Hangame Communication.source
  • 2001The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty produces a report on responsibility to protect.source
  • 2004Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Bergoglio calls an art exhibition by León Ferrari "a shame" and "blasphemy". Many of Ferrari's works employ religious icons and characters.source
  • 2004November 29–December 3 – Typhoon Nanmadol kills 775 people in the Philippines.source
  • 2006WikiLeaks leaks Hassan Dahir Aweys' conspiracy to assassinate Somali government officials.source
  • 2009The Treaty of Lisbon comes into force.source
  • 2010November 29–December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Formally referred to as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).source
  • 2012November 25–December 9 – Typhoon Bopha, known as "Pablo" in the Philippines, kills at least 1,067 with around 838 people missing. The typhoon causes considerable damage in the island of Mindanao.source
  • 2013A new building of the Nazarbayev Center was opened.source
  • 2016Following a mourning period of seven weeks after the death and funeral of Bhumibol Adulyadej, Vajiralongkorn formally succeeds his late father as the new King of Thailand.source
  • 2017During the 2017 Venezuelan protests, negotiations resume between Nicolas Maduro's Venezuelan government and the country's primary opposition coalition held in the Dominican Republic.source
  • 2018December 1–8 – France experiences its worst civil unrest since the protests of 1968 due to the yellow vests movement. Protests in Paris morph into riots, with hundreds of people injured and thousands arrested; over 100 cars are burned, the Arc de Triomphe is vandalized and numerous other tourist sites are closed, both in the capital and elsewhere in the country.source
  • 2018The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.source
  • 2019COVID-19 pandemic: First known human case of Coronavirus disease 2019, in Wuhan, Hubei, China.source
  • 2020The Arecibo Telescope of the Arecibo Observatory collapses, just weeks after the announcement of its planned demolition.source
  • 2020The Arecibo Telescope collapses.source
  • 2025Independence Day holidaysource

Births

  • 1083Anna Komnene, Byzantine princess (died 1153)source
  • 1415Jan Długosz, Polish historian (died 1480)source
  • 1438Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, son of Charles I (died 1503)source
  • 1443Magdalena of France, French princess and regent of Navarre (died 1495)source
  • 1443Magdalena of France, princess (died 1495)source
  • 1498Giovanni Michele Saraceni, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1568)source
  • 1521Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (died 1573)source
  • 1525Tadeáš Hájek, Czech astronomer (died 1600)source
  • 1580Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (died 1637)source
  • 1595Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (died 1677)source
  • 1657Karen Brahe, book collector (born 1736)source
  • 1690Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer, politician, Lord Chancellor (died 1764)source
  • 1709Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician (died 1789)source
  • 1714Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye, explorer (died 1755)source
  • 1743Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist, discoverer of uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803) (died 1817)source
  • 1761Marie Tussaud, French wax modeller (died 1850)source
  • 1844Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1925)source
  • 1870Artur Ivens Ferraz, military officer and politician (died 1933)source
  • 1918Alfredo Guati Rojo, watercolor artist (died June 10, 2003)source
  • 1949Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman, politician and 36th and 38th president of Chile (died 2024)source
  • 1952Rick Scott, American politician, 45th Governor of Florida, U.S. Senator (Florida)source
  • 1953Georgina Mello (died 2023), economist, director-general of CPLPsource
  • 1986Andrew Tate, American-British Internet personality and former professional kickboxersource

Deaths

  • 660Eligius, bishop and saintsource
  • 948Gao Conghui, prince and ruler of Jingnan (born 891)source
  • 969Fujiwara no Morotada, Japanese statesman (born 920)source
  • 1018Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg (born 975)source
  • 1049Ermesinda of Bigorre, queen of Aragon (born 1015)source
  • 1135King Henry I dies at Lyons-la-Forêt in Normandy after a 35-year reign. He is succeeded by his nephew Stephen of Blois (grandson of William the Conqueror), who asserts his claim to the throne in opposition to claims by Henry's daughter Matilda (prolonged in a civil war known as The Anarchy).source
  • 1135Henry I, king of England (born 1068)source
  • 1241Isabella of England, Holy Roman empress, spouse of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1214)source
  • 1335Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (born 1305)source
  • 1335Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan dies, a victim of the plague that ravages the Ilkhanate. This is an early outbreak of the Black Death. His death without a clear heir causes the Ilkhanate to disintegrate.source
  • 1374Magnus Eriksson, king of Sweden (born 1316)source
  • 1433Emperor Go-Komatsu, the 100th emperor of Japan (born 1377)source
  • 1455Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal smith (born 1378)source
  • 1463Mary of Guelders, Queen regent of Scotland for her 12-year-old son, King James III, dies at the age of 30, prompting the new regent, Bishop James Kennedy, to contact the former King Henry VI of England to mediate a peace between England and Scotland.source
  • 1483Charlotte of Savoy, French queen (born 1441)source
  • 1509Lê Uy Mục, 8th king of the later Lê Dynasty of Vietnam (born 1488)source
  • 1521Pope Leo X (born 1475)source
  • 1530Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (born 1480)source
  • 1531Maud Green, English noble (born 1492)source
  • 1580Giovanni Morone, Italian Catholic cardinal (born 1509)source
  • 1581In England, Jesuit priest Edmund Campion is executed for treason.source
  • 1581Edmund Campion, English Jesuit priest and saint (born 1540)source
  • 1613Theobald Butler, 1st Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim, peer.source
  • 1633Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (born 1566)source
  • 1633Isabella Clara Eugenia (born 1566), princesssource
  • 1654Jakov Mikalja, Italian linguist and lexicographer (born 1601)source
  • 1666James Ware, Irish genealogist (born 1594)source
  • 1698Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (born 1636)source
  • 1708William Wogan, judge and politician, about 70source
  • 1723Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist, actress (born 1669)source
  • 1739Hartvig Jentoft, merchant (born 1693).source
  • 1914Alfred Thayer Mahan, United States Navy admiral, geostrategist and historian (born 1840)source
  • 1947Aleister Crowley, British occultist (born 1875)source
  • 1958Our Lady of the Angels School fire: 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire in Chicago.source
  • 1964J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist (born 1892)source
  • 1973David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (born 1886)source
  • 1974Two Boeing 727s, TWA Flight 514 and Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crash on the same day in the Eastern United States resulting in a combined deaths of 95 people.source
  • 1987James Baldwin, 63, African-American novelist, playwright and poet (Go Tell It on the Mountain), stomach cancer.source