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December 7 in history

208 sourced entries recorded on December 7, from 43 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 374The people of Milan astonish Ambrosius, governor of Aemilia-Liguria, by acclaiming him bishop. He is the second son of the former praetorian prefect of Gaul, and becomes a creative thinker whose ideas will provide the paradigm for medieval church-state relations.source
  • 574Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity; he abdicates the throne in favour of his general Tiberius. Justin proclaims him Caesar and adopts him as his own son.source
  • 671An annular solar eclipse is visible from Tibet to the Maghreb.source
  • 927The Sajid emir of Adharbayjan, Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj is defeated and captured by the Qarmatians near Kufa.source
  • 1239Ayyubid forces under An-Nasir Dawud march on Jerusalem, which is largely undefended. The garrison of the city surrenders to Dawud, after accepting his offer for a safe-conduct to Acre. Dawud destroys Jerusalem's fortifications, including the Tower of David. Meanwhile, Theobald I (losing many men underway) moves with the remnants of the Crusader army northward to Acre.source
  • 1323John of Nottingham and Robert of Coventry, two Englishmen believed by Coventry residents to be expert on necromancy, begin the process of casting a spell to kill King Edward II, Sir Hugh le Despenser of Winchester, as well as the prior of Coventry. John allegedly accepted 20 pounds sterling, and starts his necromancy by making wax figurines of the targets of elimination and then using them for the next six months. The two men will later be prosecuted for sorcery after one of the designated victims allegedly dies after a pin is driven into his figurine.source
  • 1368The Treaty of Plüschow is signed, allowing Albrecht II, Duke of Mecklenburg, to purchase neighboring Schwerin for 20,000 silver Marks to create Mecklenburg-Schwerin, jointly ruled by his wife, Richardis.source
  • 1369The Estates General in France approves the request by King Charles V to raise taxes in order to finance the renewed war with England.source
  • 1383Wenceslaus II the Lazy, who is also King of Bohemia, becomes the new Duke of Luxembourg upon the death of his uncle, Duke Wenceslaus I.source
  • 1473The first-known printed book about child care, Kinderbüchlein, is published by German physician Bartholomäus Metlinger.source
  • 1518The Deccan sultanates in southern India of Ahmadnagar, Berar, Bidar, Bijapur, and Golconda formally declare their independence from the Bahmani Sultanate.source
  • 1539Juan Pardo de Tavera, Archbishop of Toledo, begins his administration as the Grand Inquisitor of Spain.source
  • 1543December 7 (11 waxing of Natdaw 905 ME) – The land and naval forces of the Confederation of Shan States (consisting of the principalities of Mohnyin, Mogaung, Bhamo, Momeik and Kale), led by Prince Sawlon of Mohnyin and King Hkonmaing, depart from the Shan capital, Awa, to start an invasion of the Toungoo Empire in upper Myanmar. The invaders easily overrun Toungoo and its capital at Prome a week later.source
  • 1549Robert Kett is hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle after being found guilty of treason for leading Kett's Rebellion. His brother William is hanged from the walls of Wymondham Abbey on the same day.source
  • 1556The Mughal Emperor Akbar personally travels with Bairam Khan to lead an invasion force to defeat the Sultan of the Sur Empire, Sikandar Shah Suri.source
  • 1564King Charles IX of France agrees to the terms of a treaty with the cantons of Switzerland, agreeing for French payment of debts owed to the Swiss for loans made to Charles's father, King Henri II.source
  • 1590North Berwick witch trials: Agnes Sampson is questioned by King James VI of Scotland, and confesses to practising witchcraft. She will be executed on January 28.source
  • 1597Lazzaro Grimaldi Cebà is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa, as the previous chief executive, Matteo Senarega completes his two-year term. Senarega is given the post of procuratore perpetuo.source
  • 1632Delegates of the Estates General received in The Hague.source
  • 1641The bill for the Militia Ordinance is introduced by Arthur Haselrig, an anti-monarchist member of the House of Commons, proposing for the first time to allow Parliament to appoint its own military commanders without royal approval. King Charles, concerned that the legislation would allow parliament to create its own army, orders Haselrig arrested for treason. Parliament passes the Militia Ordinance on March 15.source
  • 1646Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau marries Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, on her 19th birthday at The Hague.source
  • 1653The Moti Masjid, an Islamic mosque made completely of white marble and within the walls of the Agra Fort in what is now the city of Agra in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is dedicated by the Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan, on 16 Muharram 1064.source
  • 1671The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America is founded with a service on a Saturday at Newport, Rhode Island, by Stephen Mumford and four Sabbatarians who believed that Christian church services should be held on Saturday, the seventh and last day of the week, in keeping with the commandment of remembering the Sabbath.source
  • 1676Ole Rømer makes the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.source
  • 1677Father Louis Hennepin of Belgium, exploring North America, becomes the earliest known European person to discover Niagara Falls, and the first to report its existence. In his book A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, published in 1698, Hennepin writes "Betwixt the lakes Ontario and Eire there is a vast prodigious Cadence of water which falls down after a surprising and astonishing manner, inasmuch that the Universe does not afford its parallel."source
  • 1680William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, is condemned to death by perjured evidence in the House of Lords for conspiracy in the supposed "Popish Plot".source
  • 1688The gates of Derry are shut by the "Brave Thirteen" Apprentice Boys in front of the Jacobite Earl of Antrim and his "redshanks". This initiates the siege of Derry, which is the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland.source
  • 1688start of the siege of Derry. The city gates are locked against the forces of King James II by apprentice boys.source
  • 1696Connecticut Route 108, one of Connecticut's oldest highways is laid-out to Trumbull.source
  • 1697Louis, Duke of Burgundy, and Marie Adélaïde of Savoy marry in the royal chapel at the Palace of Versailles in France.source
  • 1703December 7–10 (November 26–29 O.S.) – The Great Storm of 1703, an extratropical cyclone, ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing at least 8,000, mostly at sea. The Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth is destroyed in the storm together with its designer Henry Winstanley and many buildings on land are damaged.source
  • 1711In the Parliament of Great Britain the Earl of Nottingham successfully proposes a "No Peace Without Spain" amendment.source
  • 1711The Earl of Nottingham successfully proposes an amendment in the House of Lords calling for "No Peace Without Spain".source
  • 1712The charter of Buchach Monastery in Ukraine, founded by Stefan Aleksander Potocki and his wife Joanna née Sieniawska, is signed in Lublin.source
  • 1724By order of the Nizam, Hyderabad is made the permanent capital of the Indian princely state of the same name. It becomes capital of the Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradeshsource
  • 1732The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (the modern-day Royal Opera House) is opened.source
  • 1736Benjamin Franklin builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia.source
  • 1741War of the Austrian Succession: Charles Albert of Bavaria has himself proclaimed King of Bohemia.source
  • 1741Aleksei Chirikov of Russia presents the first written description of the northwest coast of North America.source
  • 1747Benjamin Franklin forms the Pennsylvania Associators, the first militia in the colony of Pennsylvania, which had no standing militia because of its foundation by pacifistic Quakers.source
  • 1749Father Junípero Serra begins his missionary work in the New World, 100 days after departing on a voyage from Spain and a day after his arrival at Veracruz in Mexico. During the period from 1769 to 1782, Serra will be the founder of nine missions in the Province of Las Californias, including the sites around which future California cities will be built, including Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá in 1769 and Mission San Francisco de Asís in 1776.source
  • 1770King Louis XV of France issues the "Edict of December", dismissing the rebellious magistrates of the Parlements of Paris and the other 13 provinces.source
  • 1770Louis XV issues the Edict of December, dismissing rebellious magistrates of the Parlements of Paris and the other 13 provincessource
  • 1787Delaware ratifies the Constitution, and becomes the first U.S. state.source
  • 1792HDMS Skjold is launched in Copenhagen.source
  • 1796The U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president of the United States.source
  • 1796The U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president.source
  • 1800Grant names Cape Otway; the Lady Nelson becomes the first ship to cross Bass Strait from the west.source
  • 1807December 5–11 – Napoleonic Wars: Raid on Griessie – A British Royal Navy squadron attacks the Dutch port of Griessie on Java in the Dutch East Indies, eliminating the last Dutch naval force in the Pacific and concluding the Java campaign of 1806–1807.source
  • 1835Future U.S. President James K. Polk becomes Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.source
  • 1835The Bavarian Ludwig Railway opens between Nuremberg and Fürth, with a train hauled by the English-built Der Adler ("The Eagle"), the first railway in Germany.source
  • 1835The Bavarian Ludwig Railway opens between Nuremberg and Fürth, with a train hauled by the British-built Der Adler ("The Eagle"), the first railway in Germany.source
  • 18361836 United States presidential election: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison, and three other Whig candidates, marking the most recent time a Democrat is elected to succeed a two-term Democratic U.S. president.source
  • 1840David Livingstone leaves Britain for Africa.source
  • 1842The New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill, performs its first concert.source
  • 1845Tinius Olsen, Norwegian American engineer and inventor (died 1932)source
  • 1853Erie Gauge War: Citizens of the Erie, Pennsylvania, area act to stop new track being laid to resolve rail gauge differences coming from neighboring Ohio and New York.source
  • 1857U.S. Consul in Japan Townsend Harris meets the Shogun in Edo in a diplomatic reception, the first ever meeting between the Shogun and a foreign diplomat.source
  • 1858Mexican Conservative interim president Félix María Zuloaga proclaims the Plan of Tacubaya to abolish the Reform Laws, setting off a three-year civil war (1857–1860).source
  • 1860After a fiercely contested campaign, Monier Monier-Williams is elected as the new Boden Professor of Sanskrit, at Oxford University.source
  • 1863New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: the Chesapeake Affair.source
  • 1866John Granville Grenfell, gold commissioner, killed by bushrangers near Narrominesource
  • 1869American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery, in Gallatin, Missouri.source
  • 1869Outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery, in Gallatin, Missouri.source
  • 1871Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt replaces Jules d'Anethan as Prime Minister.source
  • 1876After weeks of heavy precipitation the Guadiana and Tagus rivers in southeastern Portugal burst their banks, destroying several villages in one of the worst flooding events in recorded in the country as well as the biggest involving Guadiana and Tagus rivers.source
  • 1878The United States territory of New Mexico is linked to the rest of the nation by railroad for the first time, as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates a newly completed line through the Raton Pass.source
  • 1888John Boyd Dunlop patents the pneumatic bicycle tyre in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1892Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co, a leading case in English contract law.source
  • 1895A corps of 2,350 Italian troops, mostly Askari, are crushed by 30,000 Abyssinian troops at Amba Alagi.source
  • 1902both Britain and Germany issued ultimatums to Venezuela, even though there was still disagreement about whether to impose a pacific blockade (as the Germans wanted) or a war blockade (as the British wanted)source
  • 1904Royal Navy torpedo boat destroyer HMS Spiteful begins sea trials as the first capital warship to be powered solely using fuel oil.source
  • 1905December 7–18 – Moscow Uprising: A Bolshevik-led revolt is suppressed by the army.source
  • 1911Qiqihar Protocol between Russia and China on border demarcation in the Argun River areasource
  • 1915December 4–18 – The 'Peace Ship' Oscar II chartered by industrialist Henry Ford sails from Hoboken, New Jersey to Oslo on an independent and eventually unsuccessful mission to broker a peace conference.source
  • 1918Brașov is occupied by the Romanian Army.source
  • 1920The first draft of the Mandate for Palestine is submitted to the League of Nations.source
  • 1926The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, later the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), is founded by Patrick Abercrombie to limit urban sprawl and ribbon development.source
  • 1935The Strand Cinema is opened in Belfast.source
  • 1936Streptococcous meningitis (a condition previously 99% fatal) is successfully treated for the first time with a sulfonamide.source
  • 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor: Aircraft flying from Imperial Japanese Navy carriers launch a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack begins at 7:55 a.m. Hawaiian Standard Time, and is announced on radio stations in the U.S. at about 11:26 p.m. PST (19.26 GMT).source
  • 1942The battleship USS New Jersey is launched at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.source
  • 1942Ehud Kalai, Israeli-American game theoristsource
  • 1943Chiara Lubich starts the humanitarian Focolare Movement in Trento, Italy.source
  • 1944The Convention on International Civil Aviation is signed in Chicago, creating the International Civil Aviation Organization.source
  • 19441944 Tōnankai earthquake: An earthquake along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan causes a tsunami which kills 1223 people.source
  • 19441944 Tōnankai earthquakesource
  • 1944The Arab Women's Congress of 1944 is hosted by the Egyptian Feminist Union in Cairo, leading to establishment of the Arab Feminist Union.source
  • 1946The Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta, United States, kills 119.source
  • 1946A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119.source
  • 1948Ashida arrested in connection with the Showa Electric scandalsource
  • 1949The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is established as a United Nations agency.source
  • 1949Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan finishes, and it declares Taipei its temporary capital city, a status it will retain more than 50 years later.source
  • 1953A visit to Iran by American Vice President Richard Nixon sparks several days of riots, as a reaction to the August 19 overthrow of the government of Mohammed Mossadegh by the U.S.-backed Shah. Three students are shot dead by police in Tehran. This event becomes an annual commemoration.source
  • 1959The Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco approves the expropriation of Engenho Galiléia (a sugar mill), a project by Deputy Francisco Julião; lawyer for the Peasant League.source
  • 1960The United Nations Security Council is called into session by the Soviet Union, in order to consider Soviet demands for the Security Council to seek the immediate release of former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba.source
  • 1962Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and legislative councils.source
  • 1963The first instant replay system to use videotape instead of film is used by Tony Verna, a CBS-TV director, during a live televised sporting event, the Army–Navy Game of college football played in Philadelphia, United States.source
  • 1963Decision on the Ryuichi Shimoda v. The State casesource
  • 1970Pakistan's general elections are held.source
  • 19701970 Pakistani general election. Awami League gained majority and won the election.source
  • 1970The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its apartheid policies.source
  • 1970Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.source
  • 1971Battle of Sylhet rages between the Pakistani military and the Indian Army.source
  • 1972Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt), the last crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit until the Artemis II lunar flyby in 2026, is launched to the Moon and The Blue Marble photograph of the Earth is taken. The mission also includes five mice.source
  • 1972Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot the assailant.source
  • 1975Indonesian invasion of East Timor: Indonesia invades East Timor; the occupation continues until 1999 when U.N. peacekeepers take control, which they did until 2002.source
  • 1981Rotary International charters the Rotary Club of Grand Baie, Mauritius.source
  • 1982The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.source
  • 19824 are fatalities were reported after colliding between a Bus and Train in Habiganj.source
  • 1983Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 93 people.source
  • 1986A magnitude 5.7 earthquake destroys most of the Bulgarian town of Strajica, killing 2 people.source
  • 1987Hussain Muhammad Ershad dissolves parliament under the pressure of opposition.source
  • 1987Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, United States, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor on the flight, then shoots both pilots.source
  • 1988In Soviet Armenia, the Ms 6.8 Spitak earthquake kills nearly 25,000, injures 31,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.source
  • 1988The 6.8 Ms Armenian earthquake leaves 25,000–50,000 dead and 31,000–130,000 injured.source
  • 1988Spitak earthquake kills several thousands of people.source
  • 1990The 1990 Chilean telethon takes place.source
  • 1990Cargolux orders six Boeing 747-400s.source
  • 1992There were a series of violence against the Bengali Hindus in protest against the demolition of Babri Masjid and violence against Muslims in India. the Dhakeshwari temple was attacked. The Bholanath Giri Ashram in Dhaka was attacked and looted. Hindu-owned jewellery shops were looted in old Dhaka. Hindu houses in Rayerbazar were set on fire.source
  • 1995NASA's Galileo probe enters Jupiter's atmosphere.source
  • 1996A United Nations 10-seater Beechcraft airplane carrying Tajik opposition leader Sayid Abdulloh Nuri and seven other Tajik passengers from Mashhad, Iran to Taloqan, Afghanistan was intercepted by Taliban aircraft and forced to land in Shindand.source
  • 2000Presidential elections held in Ghana.source
  • 2000Kadisoka temple is discovered in Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.source
  • 2003December 5–13 – 2003 SEA Games was held. This was the first time Vietnam staged the SEA Games.source
  • 2006Prime Minister allowed rice export again.source
  • 2009December 7–18 – The UNFCCC's 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Copenhagen, Denmark.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
  • 2010Côte d'Ivoire is expelled from the Economic Community of West African States.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
  • 2012December 6–16 – The 2012 FIFA Club World Cup is held in Japan and won by Sport Club Corinthians Paulista.source
  • 2013Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization delegates sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at loosening global trade barriers.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 U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union reports that, by the end of 2018, more than half – a full 51.2 percent – of the world's population are now using the Internet.source
  • 2019December 2–13 – The 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place in Madrid, Spain, after Chilean President Sebastián Piñera announced in October that his country could not host the conference due to political unrest in the country.source
  • 2022The Congress of Peru removes President Pedro Castillo from office and arrests him after he tries to dissolve Congress in a self-coup attempt. Vice President Dina Boluarte becomes the first female President of Peru.source
  • 2022After substantial protests against China's Zero-COVID policies, the Chinese government eases on its COVID restrictions.source
  • 2024The Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens to the public after previously being damaged by a structural fire in 2019.source
  • 2025An unsuccessful coup attempt is carried out against President Talon.source

Births

  • 521Columba, Gaelic Irish missionary monk (died 597)source
  • 903Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer (died 986)source
  • 967Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Persian Sufi poet (died 1049)source
  • 1209Vasilko Konstantinovich, Kievan prince (died 1238)source
  • 1258Trần Nhân Tông, Vietnamese emperor (died 1308)source
  • 1302Azzone Visconti, Italian nobleman and knight (died 1339)source
  • 1345Thado Minbya, founder of the Kingdom of Ava (died 1367)source
  • 1532Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein (died 1605)source
  • 1545Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (died 1567)source
  • 1550Lithuanian noble Barbara Radziwiłł, wife of Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland and Duke of Lithuania since 1547, has an elaborate coronation in Kraków as Queen consort and Grand Duchess, five months before her death at the age of 30.source
  • 1595Injo of Joseon, sixteenth king of the Joseon dynasty in Korea (died 1649)source
  • 1598Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (died 1680)source
  • 1637Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer of operas (died 1710)source
  • 1647Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (died 1734)source
  • 1754Jack Jouett, American politician (died 1822)source
  • 1756John Littlejohn, British-American sheriff and Methodist preacher (died 1836)source
  • 1764Claude-Victor Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (died 1841)source
  • 1810Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (died 1882)source
  • 1839Redvers Henry Buller in at Crediton, Devonshiresource
  • 1849Saionji Kinmochi, Japanese prince and prime minister (died 1940)source
  • 1873Willa Cather, American novelist (died 1947)source
  • 1884Petru Groza, prime minister between 1945 and 1952 and president between 1952 and 1958 (died 1958).source
  • 1891Farah Sprague, Qajar Iranian-born American lecturer.source
  • 1928Noam Chomsky, American linguistsource
  • 1956Larry Bird, American basketball playersource
  • 1994Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skatersource

Deaths

  • 43 BCECicero, Roman statesman and orator (murdered) (born 106 BC)source
  • 43 BCEThe orator Cicero is killed in Formiae in a litter going to the seaside, by a party led by Herennius (a centurion) and Popilius (a military tribune). His head and hands are displayed on the Rostra in the Forum Romanum.source
  • 283Etychian, bishop of Romesource
  • 328Lakhmid king Imru' al-Qays ibn 'Amr dies. His epitaph, the Namara inscription, is an important source for the Arabic Language.source
  • 881Anspert, archbishop of Milansource
  • 983Otto II dies from a fever in his palace at Rome after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by his 3-year-old son, Otto III.source
  • 983Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 955)source
  • 1063Qutalmish, prince of the Seljuk Empiresource
  • 1201December 7 or 8 – Bolesław I the Tall, Duke of Wroclaw, Polish nobleman and knight (born 1127)source
  • 1231Richardis, German noblewoman (born 1173)source
  • 1254Innocent IV dies after a pontificate of 11 years. He is succeeded by Alexander IV as the 181st pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 1254Innocent IV, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
  • 1279Bolesław V the Chaste, Polish nobleman (born 1226)source
  • 1295Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English nobleman (born 1243)source
  • 1312Michael II, Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch, dies after a service of 20 years. Michael III Yeshu will be elected his successor.source
  • 1312Michael II, Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antiochsource
  • 1347Oliver de la Freigne, Seneschal of Kilkenny.source
  • 1373Rafał of Tarnów, Polish nobleman (born c. 1330)source
  • 1383Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (born 1337)source
  • 1447Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated outside of Bucharest. Vladislav II succeeds him, with the assistance of John Hunyadi, beginning the Albanian–Venetian War.source
  • 1498Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist (born c. 1443)source
  • 1549Robert Kett, English rebel (executed)source
  • 1562Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer (born c. 1490)source
  • 1593Battle of Dryfe Sands: the Clan Johnstone defeat the Clan Maxwell at Skipmyre, just west of Lockerbie, and Lord Maxwell is killed.source
  • 1634Đào Duy Từ, Vietnamese scholar, poet, military adviser, and mandarin under Nguyễn lord Nguyễn Phúc Nguyênsource
  • 1653Ludwig Crocius, German Calvinist minister (born 1586)source
  • 1672Richard Bellingham, Massachusetts colonial magistrate (born 1592)source
  • 1681Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese general Wu Sangui, commits suicide at Kunming in Yunnan province, ending the 8-year Revolt of the Three Feudatories against the Kangxi Emperor and the Qing dynasty in China.source
  • 1683Algernon Sidney, English politician (born 1623)source
  • 1683Algernon Sidney, opponent of King Charles II of England and author of the rebel tract Discourses Concerning Government is beheaded after having been arrested on June 25 and found guilty on November 7.source
  • 1698Andrea Guarneri, Italian luthier (born 1626)source
  • 1709Meindert Hobbema, Dutch painter (born 1638)source
  • 1724In the aftermath of an attack against Jesuit Catholics led by the Lutheran mayor of the Prussian city of Thorn (modern-day Toruń, Poland), ten Lutheran officials (including mayor Johann Gottfried Rösner) are executed in the town square. Rösner and seven others are decapitated by an axe, while two others are hanged, drawn and quartered for blasphemy.source
  • 1782Hyder Ali, Indian general, Sultan of Mysore (born 1720)source
  • 1815Michel Ney, French marshal (executed) (born 1769)source
  • 1815Marshal Ney is executed in Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg.source
  • 1817William Bligh, British admiral (born 1754)source
  • 1821King Pōmare II of Tahiti (born 1782)source
  • 1874Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar (born 1815)source
  • 1902Thomas Nast, American caricaturist, cartoonist (born 1840)source
  • 1993In Garden City, New York, six people are murdered and 19 injured in the Long Island Rail Road massacre, a racially motivated mass shooting perpetrated by Colin Ferguson, a black Jamaican immigrant.source
  • 1993President of Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny dies at 88, the oldest African head of state. He is succeeded four days later by Henri Konan Bédié.source
  • 2006Lyuben Berov, prime minister (1992-1994)source