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January 13 in history

220 sourced entries recorded on January 13, from 86 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 47 BCEQueen Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler.source
  • 1005January 13–18 – The Shanyuan Treaty is negotiated between the Liao dynasty and the Song dynasty. The Song government agrees to pay an annual tribute of 200,000 bolts of raw silk and 100,000 taels of silver, ending the northern border clashes against Liao.source
  • 1049Theodwin, prince-bishop of Liège, defeats Count Dirk IV of West Frisia near Dordrecht and restores imperial authority in the Rhine Delta.source
  • 1177Leopold V becomes Duke of Austria.source
  • 1180Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, is stripped of his duchies and all his imperial fiefs at an Imperial Diet in Würzburg for violating the king's peace. On April 13, Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter, formally dissolving Henry's former domains. A portion of Saxony is reorganized as the Duchy of Westphalia, while other territories are granted to his ally, Otto I the Redhead, Duke of Bavaria.source
  • 1199A short-lived truce is declared, between the Kings Richard I (the Lionheart) and Philip II (Augustus). Two of Europe's most powerful rulers meet on the banks of the Seine River, while shouting terms to one another. With a peace secured, Richard is able to refocus on bringing internal order to the south of the Angevin Empire.source
  • 1257At the first recorded meeting of the college of the seven Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, the 48-year-old Richard of Cornwall (the brother of King Henry III of England) is elected King of the Romans. He is crowned at Aachen, on May 17. His candidacy is opposed by King Alfonso X of Castile ("the Wise"), Pope Alexander IV and King Louis IX of France ("the Saint") who favour Alfonso, but both are ultimately convinced by Richard's sister-in-law, Queen Eleanor of Provence, to support Richard.source
  • 1312English royal favourite Piers Gaveston, having returned secretly from two months exile on the continent, is reunited, probably at Knaresborough Castle, with King Edward II, who on January 18 restores all Gaveston's confiscated lands to him. They plan to travel to Scotland to seek help from King Robert the Bruce.source
  • 1313Robert the Bruce expels English troops from Perthsource
  • 1327In Spain, Marinid Prince Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, who started an uprising the year before against the Emirate of Granada and its ruler Muhammad IV, arrives at Almería and proceeds to enlist Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abi Sa'id, Muhammad IV's uncle, to be installed as the new Emir, with the name al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah.source
  • 1373King Charles VI of France issues an ordinance to reform the kingdom's defense forces, with a goal of improving efficiency and discipline. For the first time, captains of regiments of soldiers are required to pay their men directly and report the accounting to their superiors, who are required to audit the reports. Previously, the captains pocketed the wages and allowed their men "to pay themselves by pillage."source
  • 1378Balša II succeeds his brother, Durađ I, as ruler of Lower Zeta in what is now Montenegro.source
  • 1383At Heian-kyō (now Kyoto), Go-Komatsu is enthroned as the Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan, after having succeeded to the throne on the abdication of Emperor Go-En'yū on November 19.source
  • 1399In the Delhi Sultanate in what is now the Uttarakhand state of India, Timur the Lame captures and sacks Haridwar.source
  • 1408Appenzell Wars: In the Appenzell region of Switzerland, the alliance of the region with St. Gallen, the Bund ob dem See "alliance over the lake", referring to the nearby Lake Constance fails in its attempt to liberate the city of Bregenz from Austrian rule. The Bund is dissolved less than three months later.source
  • 1421Al-Muzaffar Ahmad becomes the Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria upon the death of his father, Al-Mu'ayyad Shaykhsource
  • 1425The Venetian Republic's Great Council authorizes spending to equip 25 galleys for use as warships.source
  • 1426Hook and Cod wars: The Battle of Brouwershaven is fought in the Netherlands between the Burgundian State, led by Duke Philip the Good, and the troops led by Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, with the Burugundians winning.source
  • 1435Sicut Dudum, a papal bull forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.source
  • 1445King Henry VI of England summons the English Parliament for the first time in almost three years, directing the Lords and the members of the House of Commons to assemble at Westminster on February 25.source
  • 1486In Austria, the siege of Wiener Neustadt by the Kingdom of Hungary begins and will last for more than a year and a half before the city is surrendered to Hungary and is renamed Biencújhely. As part of the terms of peace, Austria cedes much of the territory of Lower Austria to the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus.source
  • 1489The English Parliament opens at Westminster, with Thomas Fitzwilliam as the Speaker of the House of Commons. The day after its opening, the Treason Act 1488 and the Collusive Actions Act 1488 go into effect on resolution of the English Parliament.source
  • 1535A statute of the Parlement of Paris is enacted forbidding all printing under threat of hanging and closing all bookshops, although it is quickly abandoned.source
  • 1535Swedish victory at the Battle of Helsingborg (1535).source
  • 1544The Västerås arvförening declare Sweden to be a Hereditary monarchy, with the right of the eldest legitimate son to be heir to the throne and the younger sons to be Dukes. It is also officially declared a Protestant Kingdom: Requiem, the worship of saints and pilgrimages is banned, crucifixes is removed from the churches, and the opposition to the new religious order is declared heretics.source
  • 1544At Västerås, the estates of Sweden swear loyalty to King Gustav Vasa and to his heirs, ending the traditional electoral monarchy in Sweden. Gustav subsequently signs an alliance with the Kingdom of France.source
  • 1547Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death for treason in England.source
  • 1557Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, issues an edict against Protestants, at the urging of the Archbishop Mikołaj Dzierzgowski, Primate of Poland.source
  • 1578The Siege of Gvozdansko ends in the Kingdom of Croatia as Ottoman Empire troops led by Ferhad Pasha Sokolović capture the fortress at Gvozdansko.source
  • 1607The Bank of Genoa fails.source
  • 1630In China, General Yuan Chonghuan is invited to an audience with the Chongzhen Emperor and is arrested on charges of collusion with the enemy. Yuan is executed by the slow death on September 22.source
  • 1638proclamation enforcing the monopoly on tobacco held by the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Thomas Wentworth.source
  • 1666French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrives in Dhaka, and meets Shaista Khan.source
  • 1672Pope Clement X issues regulations for the prerequisites of removing relics of Roman Catholic saints from sacred cemeteries, requiring advance approval from the Cardinal Vicar in Rome before the remains of the saint can be allowed for view. The Cardinal Vicar is directed to bar regular persons from viewing remains, and to limit inspection to high prelates and to princes.source
  • 1690Captain Thomas Pound, after being captured with his crew the previous month, is tried in Boston and found guilty of piracy although he is later reprieved.source
  • 1695Princess Anne returns to court to act as royal hostess.source
  • 1715A fire in London, described by some as the worst since the Great Fire of London (1666) almost 50 years earlier, starts on Thames Street when fireworks prematurely explode "in the house of Mr. Walker, an oil man"; more than 100 houses are consumed in the blaze, which continues over to Tower Street before it is controlled.source
  • 1733Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the death of King Sanphet IX.source
  • 1741Lanesborough, Massachusetts is created as a township.source
  • 1741Conventicle Act of 1741 is introduced in Denmark-Norway.source
  • 1741The Conventicle Act of 1741 is enacted.source
  • 1741Conventicle Act of 1741 is introduced.source
  • 1750The Treaty of Madrid between Spain and Portugal authorizes a larger Brazil than had the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, which originally established the boundaries of the Portuguese and Spanish territories in South America.source
  • 1751For the first time, the American colony in Georgia has an elected legislature after having been administered by a corporate Board of Trustees since its founding in 1732. The original Georgia Assembly meets in Savannah with 16 representatives as the colony prepares to become a British colonial province. After electing Francis Harris as the Speaker of the unicameral Assembly, the delegates successfully ask the Trustees not to surrender control of Georgia to the neighboring Province of South Carolina.source
  • 1761The Fire Insurance for All Danish Market Towns is instituted by law.source
  • 1793Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, a representative of Revolutionary France, is lynched by a mob in Rome.source
  • 1794The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United States flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes, in recognition of the recent admission of Vermont and Kentucky as the 14th and 15th states. A subsequent act restores the number of stripes to 13, but provides for additional stars upon the admission of each additional state.source
  • 1796the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, predecessor of the University of Strathclyde, is founded under the will of Professor John Anderson.source
  • 1797Action of 13 January 1797, part of the War of the First Coalition: Two British Royal Navy frigates, HMS Indefatigable and HMS Amazon, drive the French 74-gun ship of the line Droits de l'Homme aground on the coast of Brittany, resulting in over 900 deaths.source
  • 1815War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.source
  • 1818Torgoyle Bridge in Glenmoriston is swept away by an exceptional flood event.source
  • 1822The design of the modern-day flag of Greece is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus, for their naval flag.source
  • 1823Edward Paget, former MP for Caernarvon, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India.source
  • 1826The Army Secretariat is divided into two: one of the government and finance sections and the other military.source
  • 1832The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white planters organize militias and the British Army sends companies of the 84th regiment to enforce martial law. More than 300 of the slave rebels will be publicly hanged for their part in the destruction.source
  • 1838January 12–13: War of the Confederation: Battle of Islaysource
  • 1840The Battle of Yering occurs between Indigenous Australians of the Wurundjeri nation and the Border Police.source
  • 1840The steamship Lexington burns and sinks in icy waters, four miles off the coast of Long Island; 139 die, only four survive.source
  • 1840January 13–14 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks in icy waters, 4 miles off the coast of Long Island; 139 die, only 4 survive.source
  • 1842January 6–13 – First Anglo-Afghan War – Massacre of Elphinstone's army (Battle of Gandamak): British East India Company troops are destroyed by Afghan forces on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, by Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammad Khan.source
  • 1846The Milan–Venice railway's 3.2 km bridge, over the Venetian Lagoon between Mestre and Venice in Italy, opens, the world's longest since 1151.source
  • 1847The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California.source
  • 1847The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the fighting in the Mexican–American War in California.source
  • 1849The Colony of Vancouver Island is established.source
  • 1851Charles Augustus FitzRoy was commissioned as "Governor-General of all Her Majesty's Australian possessions". This position was a forerunner of the Governor-General of Australia.source
  • 1860Battle of Tétouan, Morocco: Spanish troops under General Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan defeat the Moroccan Army.source
  • 1864American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song "Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March.source
  • 1865American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Fisher – Union forces launch a major amphibious assault against the last seaport held by the Confederates, Fort Fisher, North Carolina.source
  • 1868The brig Albion runs aground off Whitford Point and is abandoned by her seven crew members, all of whom drown.source
  • 1873Convention with The Netherlands for building water defences on the Zwin comes into effect.source
  • 1881War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The Chilean army defeats Peruvian forces.source
  • 1882A train collision in New York City kills eight, including Webster Wagner, a New York state senator and founder of the luxury sleeper-car company bearing his name.source
  • 1883January 8 — January 19 – Trial of the 66 in Lyon, targeting the Black International in France.source
  • 1888The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1891In California, Leland Stanford (Rep.) re-elected Senator.source
  • 1891The first public phonograph performance in New Zealand is made at Christchurch.source
  • 1893The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting.source
  • 1893U.S. Marines from the USS Boston land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.source
  • 1895First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians.source
  • 1895Battle of Coatit between Italy and Ethiopian proxies led by Tigrian warlord Ras Mengesha Yohannes in what is now Eritrea. It was the opening battle of the First Italo–Ethiopian War, and was a significant victory for the Italians, as they rebuffed an invasion force.source
  • 1898Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse…!, is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper L'Aurore, accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism.source
  • 1900Peter Waage, chemist and professor (born 1833)source
  • 1904The flag of South Australia is officially gazetted as the current design.source
  • 1904Portobello Marine Laboratory opens, initially as a fish hatcherysource
  • 1904Zhang Zhidong and other advisers propose ending the civil service examinations.source
  • 1908A fire breaks out at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killing 171 people.source
  • 1913Edward Carson founds the Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland.source
  • 1915The 6.7 Mw Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). Various agencies estimate the number of people killed to be 29,978–32,610.source
  • 1916WWI: Battle of Wadi – Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq.source
  • 1917Ciurea rail disaster. The worst rail accident in Romanian history and third worst in the history of the world, with most estimates falling between 800 and 1000 deaths.source
  • 1919January 7–14 - Tragic Week (Argentina)source
  • 1920The New York Times ridicules American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard, which it will rescind following the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969.source
  • 1920The New York Times ridicules the American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard. (Decades later, on July 17, 1969, as the Apollo 11 crew head to the Moon, the newspaper will retract this editorial.)source
  • 1922Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.source
  • 1923Beechpark, the residence of President W. T. Cosgrave in Ballyboden, Dublin, was set on fire.source
  • 1923Passenger seaplane Columbus ditches in the Straits of Florida between Key West and Havana, resulting in four fatalities, becoming the first fatal passenger flight incident in U.S. history.source
  • 1926Mathilde Schjøtt, writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist (born 1844).source
  • 1935A referendum in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany.source
  • 1939Guri Vesaas, translator and publishing house editor.source
  • 1939The bushfires of Black Friday kill 70 people in Victoria.source
  • 1942Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile that would be 30% lighter than a conventional car.source
  • 1943Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning terrorism.source
  • 1947The last of hundreds of concentration camps in Francoist Spain, Miranda de Ebro, shuts down.source
  • 1950Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.source
  • 1958Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol.source
  • 1962Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China.source
  • 19631963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president.source
  • 1966Archipiélago de Juan Fernández National Park receive new names: Robinson Crusoe (formerly Mas a Tierra) and Alexander Selkirk (formerly Más Afuera)source
  • 1967Cross-Strait conflict: Republic of China Air Force Lockheed F-104G Starfighters engage People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19s in the final direct confrontation between China and Taiwan.source
  • 1969Elvis Presley steps into American Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording "Long Black Limousine" thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions for the albums "From Elvis In Memphis" and "Back in Memphis." The sessions yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles "Suspicious Minds", "In the Ghetto" and "Kentucky Rain."source
  • 1982Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., United States, then falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.source
  • 1984In Amsterdam and Utrecht a large number of people are infected with dysentery, after eating shrimps from Southeast Asia. 14 people in total don't survive the ordeal due to causes of the infection. So called 'home peeling' of shrimps, that guarantees too little hygiene becomes prohibited after this incident.source
  • 1986January 13–24 – South Yemen Civil War.source
  • 1987Avalanche in Tunceli Province results in 12 fatalities.source
  • 1988Vice-president Lee Teng-hui takes over as President of the Republic of China and Chairman of the Kuomintang following the death of Chiang Ching-kuo.source
  • 1989Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is expelled to Senegal from Zaire after using a fake Zairean passport in an attempt to return to Uganda. Amin is eventually expelled from Senegal and subsequently returns to Zaire after the Saudi government refuses to allow him in Saudi Arabia.source
  • 1992Croatia is officially recognized by the Holy See.source
  • 1992Ulaanbaatar was reorganized from six districts to nine districts.source
  • 1993The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed by President George H. W. Bush.source
  • 1993January 6–20 – The Bombay riots take place in Mumbai.source
  • 1993Iraq disarmament crisis: US, British and French aircraft attack Iraqi Surface to Air Missile sites in Southern Iraq.source
  • 1993January 8–17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.source
  • 1995January 12–16 – Second pastoral and state visit of Pope John Paul II in the country, coinciding with the 10th World Youth Day (WYD) and marking the fourth centenary of the Archdiocese of Manila and the Dioceses of Cebu, Caceres and Nueva Segovia. On Jan 15, the Mass he led in Luneta, marking the end of WYD, draws a crowd of an estimated 4-million, the largest gathering at such papal Mass at that time. —"Pope John Paul II to visit the Philippines in 1995" UCA News. July 14, 1993.source
  • 1995January 10–15 – The World Youth Day 1995 festival is held in Manila, Philippines, culminating in 5 million people gathering for John Paul II's concluding mass in Quirino Grandstand.source
  • 2001A 7.6-magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and causing massive landslides, which leaves thousands of those affected homeless.source
  • 2004Uzbekistan Airways Flight 1154 crashes in the capital, Tashkent, killing all 37 people on board.source
  • 2012The credit rating agency Standard & Poor's lowers its long-term credit ratings by two notches on multiple eurozone countries, including Cyprus, while lowering it by one notch for Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia.source
  • 2012The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off the coast of Italy, causing 32 deaths.source
  • 2013Pădurea Domnească case is made public.source
  • 2014The Prophet's Birthdaysource
  • 2014Tonga restores contact with the Ha'apai islands after Cyclone Ian passed through during the weekend, killing one person and significantly damaging structures.source
  • 2015Construction of the Vinarium Tower commencedsource
  • 2017Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State militants manage to seize full control of Mosul University which the army described as a significant victory.source
  • 2018At 8:08 AM HST, an inbound missile alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert System over television, radio, and cellular networks in the U.S. state of Hawaii. 38 minutes later, the alert was confirmed as false by state officials, and blamed a miscommunicated drill at the HI-EMA.source
  • 2021In Lyon, France, the first transplant of both arms and shoulders is performed on an Icelandic patient at the Édouard Herriot Hospital.source
  • 2023January 10–17 – A cold snap in Afghanistan kills 166 people and nearly 80,000 livestock.source
  • 2025C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a non-periodic comet, reaches perihelion, and is dubbed The Great Comet of 2025.source

Births

  • 101Lucius Aelius Caesar, Roman politician (died 138)source
  • 915Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (died 976)source
  • 1314John Bardolf, English nobleman and peerage (died 1363)source
  • 1334King Henry II of Castile (died 1379)source
  • 1338Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (died 1392)source
  • 1381Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (died 1447)source
  • 1400Infante John of Portugal, the Constable (died 1442)source
  • 1477Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (died 1527)source
  • 1505Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, Imperial Elector (died 1571)source
  • 1512Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela, General Inquisitor of Spain (died 1594)source
  • 1529Ebba Lilliehöök, aka Ebba Månsdotter, Swedish noble (died 1609)source
  • 1538Udai Singh of Marwar, Ruler of Marwar (died 1595)source
  • 1610Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (died 1665)source
  • 1615Henrik Bjelke, admiral (died 1683).source
  • 1652Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (died 1694)source
  • 1655Bernard de Montfaucon, French Benedictine monk (died 1741)source
  • 1683Christoph Graupner, German composer (died 1760)source
  • 1690Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Spanish musician (died 1749)source
  • 1702Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, French general of Irish Jacobite ancestry (died 1766)source
  • 1709Mollie Sneden, operator of a ferry service at Palisades, New York in the United States (died 1810)source
  • 1713Charlotte Charke, British actor and writer (died 1760)source
  • 1777Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (died 1820)source
  • 1808Salmon P. Chase, American politician, Chief Justice of the United States (died 1873)source
  • 1838André Rebouças, military engineer, abolitionist and inventor (died 1898)source
  • 1866George Gurdjieff, Russian spiritual teacher (died 1949)source
  • 1892Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Iranian writer.source
  • 1911Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 31st Premier of Queensland (died 2005)source
  • 1955Paul Kelly, Australian musiciansource
  • 1969Stephen Hendry, British snooker playersource

Deaths

  • 86 BCEGaius Marius, Roman general and politician (born c. 157 BC)source
  • 337Leontius of Caesarea, Roman Catholic bishop and saintsource
  • 367Hilary of Poitiers, Byzantine bishop, Doctor of the Church and saint (born c. 315)source
  • 533Remigius, bishop of Reimssource
  • 614Mungo, Brythonic apostle and saintsource
  • 703Jitō, empress of Japan (born 645)source
  • 858Æthelwulf, king of Wessexsource
  • 858King Æthelwulf of Wessex dies after an 18-year reign, and is succeeded by his eldest son Æthelbald. He marries his father's young widow Judith (daughter of Charles the Bald), and becomes sole ruler of Wessex. His brother, Æthelberht, is left to rule Kent and the south-east of England.source
  • 888Emperor Charles III (the Fat) dies at Neidingen, after having suffered repeat bouts of an illness that may have been epilepsy. The Frankish Empire is split again, and falls apart into separate kingdoms. Count Odo, the hero of the Siege of Paris, is elected king of the West Frankish Kingdom, and crowned at Compiègne by Walter, archbishop of Sens. Other Frankish noblemen support the 8-year-old Charles the Simple (the posthumous son of the late king Louis the Stammerer).source
  • 888Charles the Fat, Frankish emperor (born 839)source
  • 927Berno of Cluny, Frankish monk and abbotsource
  • 1001Empress consort Fujiwara no Teishi dies in childbirth.source
  • 1001Fujiwara no Teishi, empress of Japan (born 977)source
  • 1049Dirk IV, count of Friesland west of the Vliesource
  • 1138January 13 or January 14 – Simon I, duke of Lorraine (born 1076)source
  • 1147Robert de Craon, French Grand Mastersource
  • 1151Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (born c. 1081)source
  • 1169Bertrand de Blanchefort, French Grand Mastersource
  • 1177Henry II, Duke of Austria (born 1107)source
  • 1182Agnes of Austria, queen of Hungary (born 1154)source
  • 1184Gerard la Pucelle, English bishop (born 1117)source
  • 1200Otto I, German nobleman (House of Hohenstaufen)source
  • 1209Matilda of Saxony, German noblewoman (born 1172)source
  • 1228Yvette of Huy, Belgian anchoress (born 1158)source
  • 1307Wareru, founder of the Martaban Kingdom, assassinated (born 1253)source
  • 1330Duke Frederick I of Austria (born 1286)source
  • 1363Meinhard III, Count of Tyrolsource
  • 1400Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (executed) (born 1373)source
  • 1408Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandriasource
  • 1546Jeremias I of Constantinople, Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church dies.source
  • 1599Edmund Spenser, English poet (born 1552)source
  • 1629Sri Chand, founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (born 1494)source
  • 1658Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (born 1616)source
  • 1658Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in the Tower of London.source
  • 1684Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, English noble (born 1628)source
  • 1685Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (born 1608)source
  • 1691George Fox, English founder of the Society of Friends (born 1624)source
  • 1691George Fox, founder of the Quakers (born 1624)source
  • 1717Maria Sibylla Merian, German-born Swiss naturalist and scientific illustrator, who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings of them (born 1647)source
  • 1735Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, Queen consort of Sardinia (born 1706)source
  • 1759Távora affair: The Távora family is executed, following accusations of the attempted regicide of Joseph I of Portugal.source
  • 1770Howel Davies, Methodist leader, about 54source
  • 1825Frei Caneca, religious leadersource
  • 1838John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1751)source
  • 1849Francisco Ramón Vicuña (born 1775)source
  • 1864Stephen Foster, American song composer (born 1826)source
  • 1885Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice President of the United States (born 1823)source
  • 1904Urbano González Serrano (born 1848), krausipositivista intellectualsource
  • 1916Victoriano Huerta, 35th President of Mexico (born 1850)source
  • 1929Wyatt Earp, American gunfighter and sheriff (born 1848)source
  • 1941James Joyce, Irish writer, poet (born 1882)source
  • 1962Ernie Kovacs, American TV comedian (born 1919)source
  • 1978Hubert Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (born 1911)source
  • 1984Themis Rigas, footballersource