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February 6 in history

229 sourced entries recorded on February 6, from 320 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 337A 4-month papal vacancy ends; Pope Julius I succeeds Pope Mark, as the 35th pope.source
  • 822Ukit Took becomes the last ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city-state Copán (modern Guatemala). After his death in 830, the kingdom is wiped out, most likely from an epidemic.source
  • 914Hubasa takes Barqah (modern-day Benghazi), the ancient capital of Cyrenaica. The Abbasid governor withdraws to Egypt, before the superior strength of the Fatimids. With this rich, fertile province fallen into his hands, it provides Hubāsa with 24,000 gold dinars in annual revenues from taxes, as well as 15,000 dinars paid by Christians.source
  • 969July 9 – Fatimid conquest of Egypt: Caliph Al-Mu'izz's army under General Jawhar invades Egypt. Jawhar occupies the lands around the Nile from the Ikhshidids after a siege at Giza and the capitulation of Fustat.source
  • 1001After leading the revolt against Emperor Otto III and expelling the Crescentii, Gregory I, Count of Tusculum is named "Head of the Republic".source
  • 1223Dispatched by Genghis Khan, the Mongol General Muqali makes a third and final attempt to capture Fengxiang, but fails again, ending the Mongol attempts.source
  • 1319(14 Dhu al-Hijjah 718 AH) Rumaythah ibn Abi Numayy and Sayf al-Din Bahadur al-Ibrahimi, both former Emirs of Mecca, are arrested by the incumbent Emir, Shams al-Din Aq Sunqur al-Nasiri and taken from Mecca to Cairo for imprisonment. Rumaythah is charged with having provided support to his brother, Humaydah ibn Abi Numayy and al-Ibrahimi is accused of allowing Humaydah to escape. Rumaythah is pardoned a month later after arriving in Cairo.source
  • 1430The Hussite General Andreas Prokop signs a treaty with Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg at Kulmbach, agreeing to withdraw Hussite troops entirely from Germany.source
  • 1481The first execution during the Spanish Inquisition is carried out in Seville in an auto-da-fé as six people convicted of heresy are burned alive. As a result of this and other murders, thousands of conversos— mostly Jewish people who had converted to Christianity— flee their homes.source
  • 1520The Swabian League sells the Duchy of Württemberg to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, for 220,000 florins and payment of the Duchy's debt of 1,100,000 Goldguldensource
  • 1526Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, agrees to form a military alliance with France, after King François I sends a proposal by way of his envoy, Jean Frangipani.source
  • 1526Suleiman the Magnificent, agrees to form a military alliance with France, after King Francis I sends a proposal by way of his envoy, Jean Frangipani.source
  • 1562In the Mughal Empire in India, the Emperor Akbar marries Mariam-uz-Zamani, daughter of Raja Bharmal, the ruler of the Kingdom of Amber. The marriage takes place in Sambhar in what is now the state of Rajasthan, where Akbar has stopped on his way back to the Mughal capital of Agra.source
  • 1573In the battle of Kerestinec, General Gašpar Alapić defeats the rebel troops led by Gubec.source
  • 1578Pope Gregory XIII issues the papal bull Illius fulti praesidio and creates the Diocese of Manila, the first Roman Catholic diocese in the Philippines, with Domingo de Salazar as the first Bishop of Manila. The diocese will be raised to the status of archdiocese on August 14, 1595.source
  • 1582Hudiksvall is granted town privileges.source
  • 1588General Assembly of the Church of Scotland called to defend against the Spanish Armada.source
  • 1589King Philip of Portugal issues an order to the Viceroy in Portuguese India (Goa) for the arrest of explorer João da Gama, but da Gama continues toward Mexico without being aware of the order.source
  • 1595Despite a string of military victories over the Serbian rebels, Koca Sinan Pasha is dismissed as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Mehmed III, and banished to Malkara. He is replaced by Serdar Ferhad Pasha, whom he replaces on July 7.source
  • 1595Sir Walter Raleigh of England departs from Plymouth to begin an expedition to South Americasource
  • 1608Gabriel Báthory makes an agreement with Hungarian mercenary soldiers, the Hajduk, in order to overthrow the government of Transylvania.source
  • 1625Bogislaw XIV becomes the final Duke of Pomerania, an office that becomes extinct after his death in 1637.source
  • 1633the formal coronation of Władysław IV Vasa as King of Poland takes place at the cathedral in Kraków. He had been elected as king on November 8.source
  • 1643Abel Tasman sights the Fiji Islands.source
  • 1655Vuku Church is consecrated.source
  • 1658Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt in Denmark, over frozen sea.source
  • 1658Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross the Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea.source
  • 1667February 6 (January 27 O.S.) – The Treaty of Andrusovo is signed during the Russo-Polish War. Poland cedes eastern Ukraine, including Kiev and Smolensk, to Russia, ending Poland's status as a major Central European power.source
  • 1672Isaac Newton sends for publication a paper regarding his experiments on the refraction of light through glass prisms and makes the first identification of the primary colours.source
  • 1685Catholic James Stuart, Duke of York, becomes King James II of England and Ireland, and King James VII of Scotland, in succession to his brother Charles II (1660–1685), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland since 1660. James II and VII reigns until deposed, in 1688.source
  • 1685James II becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of Charles II.source
  • 1689the Convention Parliament reads the Declaration of Right to William of Orange and his wife, Mary (daughter of the exiled James II) in formally offering them the throne.source
  • 1690King William III of England calls for new elections for the 512-member House of Commonssource
  • 1694The colony of Quilombo dos Palmares, created by rebel African slaves in Brazil, is destroyed by the bandeirantes, colonial troops under the command of Domingos Jorge Velho. After a successful attack on its capital, Cerca do Macaco, the last King of Dos Palmares, Zumbi, flees after a reign of more than 13 years, but is later captured and executed.source
  • 1695Mustafa II (1664 – 1703) succeeds his uncle, Ahmed II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1706The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is incorporated by governor Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdes as La Villa de Alburquerque in the Spanish colonial province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in New Spain. Governor Cuervo sends a report on April 23 to the Spanish Crown and to New Spain's Governor, Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque announcing that the new villa, consisting of 35 families and having a population of 252 adults, has been named in honor of the Duke.source
  • 1715John Wynne is enthroned as Bishop of St Asaph.source
  • 1717Following the treaty between France and Britain, the Pretender James Stuart leaves France, and seeks refuge with Pope Clement XI.source
  • 1774The Parlement of Paris votes a sentence of civil degradation, depriving Pierre Beaumarchais of all rights and duties of citizenship.source
  • 1778American Revolutionary War: In Paris, the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France, signaling official French recognition of the new republic.source
  • 1778American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France, signaling official recognition of the new republic.source
  • 1778The United States allies with France, and joins the American Revolutionary War.source
  • 1782Singu Min is overthrown as king of Myanmar by his cousin Phaungka Min and would be executed eight days later by his uncle Bodawpayar.source
  • 1782The collapse of a floor due to a rotten beam at Neale's Musick Hall, Dublin leaves many people injured, 11 of whom die shortly afterwards due to their injuries.source
  • 1783American Revolutionary War: Spain lifts the Great Siege of Gibraltar.source
  • 1788Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the sixth U.S. state.source
  • 1788Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 6th U.S. state (see History of Massachusetts).source
  • 1788The first female convicts disembark at Port Jackson.source
  • 1806Battle of San Domingo: The British Royal Navy gains a victory over the French off Santo Domingo.source
  • 1808The ship Topaz (from Boston April 5, 1807, hunting seals) "rediscovers" the Pitcairn Islands; only one HMS Bounty mutineer is still alive, John Adams, who is using the pseudonym Alexander Smith.source
  • 1808The ship Topaz (from Boston April 5, 1807, hunting seals) rediscovers the Pitcairn Islands; only one HMS Bounty mutineer is found alive, Alexander Smith (John Adams).source
  • 1815New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.source
  • 1815New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.source
  • 1819The Treaty of Singapore, is signed between Hussein Shah of Johor and Sir Stamford Raffles of Britain, to create a trading settlement in Singapore.source
  • 1820Capture of Valdivia: Lord Cochrane occupies Valdivia in the name of the Republic of Chile.source
  • 1820A group of 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a goal of creating a home for freed American slaves, to be called "Liberia".source
  • 182086 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone.source
  • 1822The Chinese junk Tek Sing sinks in the South China Sea, drowning more than 1,800 people on board. The wreckage will not be located until 1999.source
  • 1826First printing of James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans, in Philadelphia.source
  • 1832The Swan River Colony is renamed Western Australia.source
  • 1833Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria arrives at the port of Nafplio to assume the title King Othon the First of Greece.source
  • 1833His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King of Greece, Prince of Bavaria.source
  • 1838Boer explorer Piet Retief and 60 of his men are massacred by King Dingane kaSenzangakhona of the Zulu people, after Retief accepts an invitation to celebrate the signing of a treaty, and his men willingly disarm as a show of good faith.source
  • 1840The Treaty of Waitangi, granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed.source
  • 1843The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show, at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City.source
  • 1843The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).source
  • 1851Black Thursday occurs in Australia as bushfires sweep across the state of Victoria, burning about a quarter of its area.source
  • 1851The Black Thursday bushfires rage from Mount Gambier to Melbourne. Fires covered a quarter of what is now the state of Victoria, approximately 50,000 km 2 . Areas affected include Portland, the Plenty Ranges to the north of Melbourne, Westernport, the Wimmera and Dandenong districts. Approximately 12 people died, one million sheep and thousands of cattle were lost.source
  • 1856The sailing ship Grand Duke is wrecked off St Govan's Head, with the loss of 29 lives.source
  • 1865The municipal administration of Finland is established.source
  • 1871A train collision in New York kills 22.source
  • 1886February 6–9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington.source
  • 1886German chemist Clemens Winkler discovers chemical element Germanium.source
  • 1890an underground explosion at Llanerch Colliery, Abersychan in Monmouthshire kills 176.source
  • 1895Pope Leo XIII issues a decree blessing the Marian image of Our Lady of Walsingham for Catholic veneration at her newly restored shrine.source
  • 1896August 12 – Yaqui Uprising in Arizona and Mexico.source
  • 1899By a vote of 57 to 27, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate to end the Spanish–American War.source
  • 1900The International Arbitration Court at The Hague is created, when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.source
  • 1905February 4–8: Argentine Revolution of 1905source
  • 1915Federation of Swedish Farmers is founded.source
  • 1918Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom: Representation of the People Act gives most women over 30 the vote.source
  • 1922The Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty is signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy. Japan returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.source
  • 1922Washington Naval Treaty is signed by United States, Britain, Japan, France and Italy.source
  • 1922Washington Naval Treaty signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy. Japan returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.source
  • 1922Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.source
  • 1922Pope Pius XI is elected on the Papal conclave's fourteenth ballot.source
  • 1933February 6–7 – Officers on the USS Ramapo record a 34-meter high sea wave in the Pacific Ocean.source
  • 1934French political crisis: The French far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, in an attempted coup d'état against the Third Republic.source
  • 1934Treaty house and grounds at Waitangi dedicated as a national reserve.source
  • 1935Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly in the United States.source
  • 1936The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.source
  • 1938Black Sunday at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia: 300 swimmers are dragged out to sea in 3 freak waves; 80 lifesavers save all but 5.source
  • 1938Three hundred beachgoers are dragged out to sea when three freak waves strike Bondi Beach in Sydney in an event known as "Black Sunday". A team of eighty surf lifesavers manage to rescue all but five people.source
  • 1939British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain states in the House of Commons that any German attack on France will be automatically considered an attack on Britain.source
  • 1939In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938, accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are "now off limits".source
  • 1940February 2–11 – Scheduled dates for the 1940 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, cancelled in November 1939 due to WWII (originally allocated to Sapporo, Japan).source
  • 1943WWII: Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Louisburg is bombed and sunk off Oran, Algeria by Italian aircraft.source
  • 1945February 4–11 – WWII: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin hold the Yalta Conference.source
  • 1950In India, the first Cabinet Secretary (N. R. Pillai) is appointed.source
  • 1950In West Virginia, 372,000 coal miners strike (they remain out until March 3).source
  • 1951Woodbridge train wreck: A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people and injuring over 500, in one of the worst rail disasters in American history.source
  • 1952Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon. The princess, who is on a visit to Kenya when she hears of the death of her father, King George VI, aged 56, takes the regnal name Elizabeth II.source
  • 1952In the United States, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.source
  • 1954300 Straits Times printing employees when on strike, resulting in The Sunday Times not being published the following day.source
  • 1958Seven Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster in West Germany, on the return flight from a European Cup game in Yugoslavia. 23 people survive; manager Matt Busby and players Johnny Berry and Duncan Edwards are in a serious condition. Berry will never play again and Edwards dies a fortnight later, as does the co-pilot.source
  • 1958Jackie Blanchflower, capped 12 times for the Northern Ireland national football team, survives the Munich air disaster involving Manchester United on the return flight from a European Cup tie in Yugoslavia. Jackie (younger brother of Tottenham Hotspur's Danny Blanchflower) has won two league champions in England with United since his debut for them in 1951, but his injuries are severe and he is forced to abandon the game in the coming year.source
  • 1959At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.source
  • 1964January 29 – February 9 – The 1964 Winter Olympics are held in Innsbruck, Austria.source
  • 1965LAN Chile Flight 107 crashes in the Andes.source
  • 1967Alexei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit. He meets The Queen on February 9.source
  • 1968U.S. 2nd Infantry Division guard post attacked. 3 North Koreans killed by U.S. forces.source
  • 1968February 6–18 – The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France.source
  • 1971The 4.6 Mb Tuscania earthquake shakes the Italian province of Viterbo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 24 deaths, 150 injuries and extreme damage.source
  • 1972February 3–13 – The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, Japan.source
  • 1978King Dragon operation in Arakan: Burmese General Ne Win targets Muslim minorities in the village of Sakkipara.source
  • 1978February 5–7 – The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100, and causing over US$520 million in damage.source
  • 1983February 5–6 – The team of A. J. Foyt, Preston Henn, Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Léna win the 24 Hours of Daytona automobile race in a Porsche 935.source
  • 1983Fifteen workers die in a mine explosion in Danao, Cebu caused by a cigarette.source
  • 1987The Soviet oil tanker Antonio Gramsci suffers a minor shipwreck in Finnish waters en route to the Neste oil refinery in Porvoo, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 570–650 tons.source
  • 1989The Government of the People's Republic of Poland holds formal talks with representatives of Solidarity movement for the first time since 1981.source
  • 1991A Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker is involved in an accident over Saudi Arabia when two engines on the left wing detach from the aircraft. The pilots manage to execute an emergency landing saving all four crew members on board. The aircraft is later repaired and returned to service.source
  • 1992The Ruby Jubilee of Elizabeth II commemorates 40 years since the accession of Elizabeth II as Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.source
  • 1994Markale massacres: a Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.source
  • 1996Birgenair Flight 301, on a charter flight from the Caribbean to Germany, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 passengers and crew.source
  • 1998Washington National Airport is officially renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.source
  • 2000Second Chechen War: Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) ends as Russian forces conclude capture of the Chechen capital Grozny.source
  • 2000President of Ireland, Mary McAleese attends a concert at Clonard Monastery.source
  • 20012001 Israeli prime ministerial election: Ariel Sharon of the Likud party is elected Prime Minister of Israel.source
  • 2003North Korea announces that it has resumed its nuclear weapons program.source
  • 2006Stephen Harper is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Canada after winning the federal election on January 23.source
  • 2009Mathurin Nago, President of the Beninese National Assembly, visits with Eyadéma at the Presidential Palacesource
  • 2012A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strike in the central Philippines island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead.source
  • 2012The Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II commemorates 60 years since the accession of Elizabeth II as Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.source
  • 2016An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.source
  • 2017A Prague Fast-Food Restaurant Bans the Burka.source
  • 2018SpaceX successfully conducts its maiden flight of its most powerful rocket to date, the Falcon Heavy, from LC39A at John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.source
  • 2020In a visit to the Mexican Senate, President Alejandro Giammattei suggests the two countries construct Muros de Prosperidad ("Prosperity Walls") in the form of an investment bank in the Guatemalan departments of San Marcos, Quiché, and Huehuetenango and the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco in order to stem migration.source
  • 2020Livraga derailment: A Frecciarossa high-speed train traveling from Milan to Salerno derailed in Livraga, Lombardy, Italy. Two people were killed, and 31 were injured.source
  • 2022Cyclone Batsirai, a category 4 cyclone on the Saffir–Simpson scale, kills at least 10 people and displaces more than 48,000 after making landfall in Madagascar.source
  • 2022Prime Minister James Marape tests positive for COVID-19 and returns home after attending the 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.source
  • 2023A 7.8 Mww earthquake strikes southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria followed by a 7.7 Mww aftershock on the same day, causing widespread damage and at more than 59,000 fatalities and 121,000 injured.source
  • 2023February 1 – February 11: 2022 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco.source

Births

  • 885Daigo, emperor of Japan (died 930)source
  • 1301Henry Percy, English nobleman, governor and knight (died 1352)source
  • 1347Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess and visionary (died 1394)source
  • 1402Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse, Landgrave of Hesse (1413-1458) (died 1458)source
  • 1452Joanna, Princess of Portugal (died 1490)source
  • 1461Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (died 1501)source
  • 1465Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (died 1526)source
  • 1548Francesco Panigarola, Italian bishop (died 1594)source
  • 1577Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (died 1599)source
  • 1600Matthew Brend, English landowner (died 1659)source
  • 1608António Vieira, Portuguese writer (died 1697)source
  • 1611Chongzhen Emperor of China (died 1644)source
  • 1612Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (died 1694)source
  • 1612Antoine Arnauld, Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician (died 1694)source
  • 1638Philips Erard van der Noot, bishop (died 1730)source
  • 1664Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1703)source
  • 1665Anne, Queen of Great Britain (died 1714)source
  • 1665Anne, Queen of Great Britain (died 1714)source
  • 1732Charles Lee, general of the Continental Army (died 1782)source
  • 1744Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (died 1795)source
  • 1756Aaron Burr, American politician (died 1836)source
  • 1802Charles Wheatstone, English physicist, inventor (died 1875)source
  • 1833J. E. B. Stuart, American Confederate general (died 1864)source
  • 1838Sir Henry Irving, English actor (died 1905)source
  • 1895Babe Ruth, American baseball player (died 1948)source
  • 1911Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States and actor (died 2004)source
  • 1937Wiesław Ochman, opera singersource
  • 1939Czesław Niemen, a singer and composer, is born in Stare Wasiliszkisource
  • 1962Axl Rose, American musician, singer-songwriter of Guns N' Rosessource

Deaths

  • 320Dorothea of Alexandria, Roman Catholic virgin, martyr and saintsource
  • 565Kʼan Joy Chitam I, ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque, in what is now the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, dies after a reign of exactly 36 years.source
  • 685Hlothhere, king of Kentsource
  • 743Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik dies after a 19-year reign, in which the Arab expansion in Europe has been stopped and the Umayyad Caliphate has come under pressure from the Turks in Central Asia and Berbers in North Africa. He is succeeded by his nephew Al-Walid II, who has Khalid al-Qasri, former governor of Iraq, imprisoned and tortured.source
  • 743Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Muslim caliph (born 691)source
  • 797Donnchad Midi, High King of Irelandsource
  • 1135Elvira of Castile, queen of Sicily (born 1100)source
  • 1140Thurstan, archbishop of Yorksource
  • 1143Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy, French nobleman (born 1084)source
  • 1169Thoros II ("the Great"), prince of Armeniasource
  • 1180Teresa Fernández de Traba, queen of Leónsource
  • 1200Kajiwara Kagetoki, Japanese samurai and spysource
  • 1200Kajiwara Kagesue, Japanese nobleman (born 1162)source
  • 1215Hōjō Tokimasa, Japanese nobleman (born 1138)source
  • 1219Robert of Courçon, English cardinal (born 1160)source
  • 1292William VII, Italian nobleman and knight (born 1240)source
  • 1317Brinolfo Algotsson, Swedish bishop and theologian (born 1240)source
  • 1378King Charles V of France is widowed when his queen consort, Joanna dies at age 40, two days after giving birth to their last child, Catherine. Against medical advice, Queen Joanna had taken a hot bath in order to induce labor.source
  • 1378Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of Charles V of France (born 1338)source
  • 1411Esau de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Epirussource
  • 1463Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen, a semi-independent principality within the Holy Roman Empire, dies after a reging of more than 68 years. Because Otto has no heirs, the Principality of Göttingen comes to an end and is annexed by the principality of Calenberg.source
  • 1497Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (born c. 1410)source
  • 1497Johannes Ockeghem, composer (born c. 1410)source
  • 1515Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer (born c. 1449)source
  • 1519Lorenz von Bibra, Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Würzburg (born 1459)source
  • 1539John III, Duke of Cleves (born 1491)source
  • 1552Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (born 1479)source
  • 1553Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (born 1482)source
  • 1593Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan (born 1517)source
  • 1593Jacques Amyot, French writer (born 1513)source
  • 1593Death of Jacques Amyot, following which historian and politician Jacques Auguste de Thou succeed him as director of the Bibliothèque Nationale, an office he and his son will hold until 1642.source
  • 1597Franciscus Patricius, Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1529)source
  • 1612Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (born 1538)source
  • 1625Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania (born 1584)source
  • 1643(17 Dhu al-Qadah 1052 AH) In India, the first ceremony at the nearly-complete Taj Mahal in Agra, the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan observes the 12th anniversary of the death of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and opens the structure to thousands of mourners.source
  • 1675Nicolò Sagredo is elected as the new Doge of Venice and leader of the Venetian Republic, replacing Domenico II Contarini, who had died 10 days earlier.source
  • 1685King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1630)source
  • 1699Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, son of Maximilian II Emanuel (born 1692)source
  • 1732Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (born 1651)source
  • 1740Pope Clement XII (born 1652)source
  • 1761Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (born 1700)source
  • 1783Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (born 1716)source
  • 1804Joseph Priestley, British chemist (born 1733)source
  • 1838Voortrekker leader Piet Retief and his men are murdered by the Zulus under the command of Dingaansource
  • 1853Anastasio Bustamante, 4th President of Mexico (born 1780)source
  • 1853Anastasio Bustamante, Mexican President (born 1780)source
  • 1865Isabella Beeton, British cook, household management expert (born 1836)source
  • 1899Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (born 1831)source
  • 1905Eliel Soisalon-Soininen, the Chancellor of Justice of the Grand Duchy of Finland (at this time part of the Russian Empire) is assassinated at Helsingfors (Helsinki).source
  • 1918Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (born 1862), Spanish flusource
  • 1948Bernard Henry Bourdillon, 64, British colonial administrator (born 1883)source
  • 1952King George VI of the United Kingdom (born 1895)source
  • 1952George VI, King of Pakistan, dies at Sandringham House aged 56. Queen Elizabeth II becomes Queen of Pakistansource
  • 1958Manchester United footballers and journalists who died in Munich air disastersource
  • 1964Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and 1st President of the Philippines (born 1869)source
  • 1994Jack Kirby, 76, American comic book artist and writer (Fantastic Four, Captain America, X-Men), heart failure.source
  • 201023 Yemeni government soldiers are killed by the Houthis in two separate incidents: 15 are ambushed in Wadi al-Jabara, while the remaining 8 die in Sa'dah.source
  • 2024Former President of Chile Sebastián Piñera dies in a helicopter crash at the age of 74.source