October 17 in history

221 sourced entries recorded on October 17, from 456 CE to 2023 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

456Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats the usurper Avitus near Piacenza (northern Italy). They compel him to renounce the purple, and Avitus is obliged to become bishop of Piacenza.source
589Breach at Cucca. The Adige River overflows its banks, flooding the church of St. Zeno and damaging the walls of Verona.source
764October 14–21 – Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion: A short-lived revolt led by Fujiwara no Nakamaro is suppressed. Emperor Junnin is deposed after a 6-year reign, and forced into exile. Former empress Kōken reassumes the imperial throne of Japan, and takes the name Shōtoku. She appoints her close associate, the priest Dōkyō, prime minister (taishi), running the government with him. Nakamaro is captured and killed with his wife and children.source
1091London tornado: A T8 tornado (roughly equal to an F4 on the Fujita scale) occurs in London. The wooden London Bridge is demolished and the church of St. Mary-le-Bow is badly damaged.source
1111October 5 – 18-year-old Baldwin VII succeeds his father, Robert II, as Count of Flanders until 1119.source
1171Henry II invades Ireland and lands with a large army of at least 500 mounted knights, and 4,000 men and archers at Waterford. Henry commandeers merchant ships as part of his invasion. He claims the ports of Dublin, Waterford, and Wexford, and promises the Irish chieftains protection if they will acknowledge him as their overlord. Henry is recognized as "Lord of Ireland", traders are invited to Dublin where an English colony is set up.source
1173Revolt of 1173–74: Battle of Fornham – Flemish mercenaries under rebel leader Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, are defeated at a ford in East Anglia by the English royalists under Lord Richard de Lucy.source
1244Battle of La Forbie: A Crusader army (some 10,000 men) under Walter IV of Brienne and Ayyubid allies are defeated near Hiribya (or La Forbie) by Egyptian and Khwarazmian forces. The army is destroyed, with about 7,500 men killed. Walter and William of Chastelneuf are captured.source
1317Sir Gilbert Middleton releases the Bishop of Durham, Louis de Beaumont, and the bishop's brother Henry after being paid a ransom of 500 marks (2,000 troy ounces) of silver.source
1319Prince James of Aragon marries the 12-year-old Princess Leonor of Castile at Gandesa, but announces at the conclusion of the mass that "his decision was to never rule" the Crown of Aragon as a sovereign or even to remain in secular life, but to instead enter a monastery to pursue a life "under a religious rule." King Jaime II informs Leonor's grandmother (Queen Maria de Molina) of the situation on October 22, and Queen Maria demands the return of Leonor immediately. Having renounced his royal rights, Prince Jaime finds afterward that he will not be allowed to enter a monastery either.source
1346Battle of Neville's Cross: The English army defeats the Scots.source
1351Great council occurs in Dublin.source
1356Erik XII proclaims himself king of Sweden, in opposition to his father, King Magnus IV. Thus begins a civil war in Sweden between father and son, which will last until Erik's death in 1359.source
1368Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Pope Urban V meet at Viterbo in Italy and make plans to enter Rome together after the Pope's travel from Avignon.source
1388The Cambridge Parliament adjourns.source
1404Cosimo de' Migliorati, Cardinal of the Basilica Cross in Jerusalem, is elected unanimously by eight cardinals to succeed the late Pope Boniface IX. Migliorati takes the papal name Innocent VII as the 204th pope of the Roman Catholic Church.source
1425(4 Dhu al-Hijjah 828 AH) Hasan ibn Ajlan becomes the Emir of Mecca for the third and last time, after having been replaced for 18 months by Ali ibn Inan.source
1438Erik of Pomerania, King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, loses direct control of Sweden, as Karl Knutsson Bonde is elected Regent of Sweden.source
1451After assassinating Bogdan II of Moldavia, Petru Aron takes up the throne.source
1452English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Guyenne, in France, in order to recapture and retake most of the Guyenne province.source
1456The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in Northern Europe. Due to border changes, from 1648 to 1815 it is the oldest in Sweden, and from 1815 to 1945 the oldest in Prussia.source
1467King James III of Scotland gives royal assent to numerous laws passed by the Scottish Parliament in its six day session at Edinburgh, including the Ferries Act requiring the ramps of ferry boats be improved to support the weight of horses being shipped ("That briggis of buirdis be maide at ferryis for the eis of schipping of hors") and three acts relating to coins and currency.source
1467Choe Hang is appointed as the news prime minister (yonguijong) of Korea by the Emperor Sejo, succeeding Sim Hoe.source
1488King James IV of Scotland gives royal assent to numerous laws approved by the Scottish Parliament during its 1488 session, including the France Act ("to renew the confideracioun betuix the realmez of France and Scotland") and the Rebel Officers of Law Act (disbarring and suspending any wardens, justices or other officials "who were in battle at Stirling against our sovereign Lord").source
1491The English Parliament assembles at Westminster, and Richard Empson is elected as Speaker of the House of Commons.source
1513At Edirne, the Ottoman sultan Selim II confirms the renewal of peace treaties with Venice, under terms that are accepted by the Venetian government on December 3.source
1546Irish noble James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, the chief opponent of the policies of Sir Anthony St Leger, England's Lord Deputy of Ireland up until April 1, is fatally poisoned after being invited to the Ely Palace near London. Ormond dies 11 days later, and no investigation is carried out by the Crown as to whether St Leger is involved. St Leger becomes the Lord Deputy again less than three weeks after Ormond's death.source
1552After heavy losses by the Ottoman Empire, the Siege of Eger in Hungary is broken off by the Ottomans.source
1558Postal history of Poland: King Sigismund II Augustus appoints an Italian merchant living in Kraków to organise a consolidated postal service in Poland, the origin of Poczta Polska.source
1583Peter the Lame becomes Prince of Moldavia (in modern-day Romania) for the third and last time, reigning until 1591.source
1610Louis XIII is crowned King of France at Reims Cathedral.source
1610The coronation of Louis XIII of France takes place.source
1614On the orders of Ahmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Grand Vizier Nasuh Pasha is strangled to death by the chief of the Sultan's bodyguards.source
1617proclamation ordering banishment of Roman Catholic priests educated abroad.source
1630Empress Meishō's Coronation takes place.source
1632the court of Star Chamber prohibits all "news books" because of complaints from Spanish and Austrian diplomats that coverage in England of the Thirty Years' War is unfair.source
1633Thirty Years' War: Siege of Rheinfelden – Spain recaptures Rheinfelden from Sweden.source
1646Fuzhou falls to the Qing, Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing and his son Koxinga fled to the island of Taiwan with his fleet.source
1650The Western Remonstrance is signed by members of the Parliament of Scotland who condemn the recognition of Charles II being crowned King of Scotland, and pledging allegiance to England's General Oliver Cromwell.source
1660Extensive celebrations pay homage to the new Heraldry King.source
1666In North America, a French Army regiment led by Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy erects crosses in the Mohawk lands of the eastern Iroquois Confederacy territory along the Mohawk River as part of an invasion that started on September 29. During the expedition, Prouville's forces find four abandoned Mohawk villages in the area, located in the modern U.S. state of New York near the village of Schenectady but never confront any Mohawk defenders, and the French never attempt to enforce their claim.source
1676The Treaty of Żurawno is signed, between the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.source
1678English magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London. His death is seen as proof of the "Popish Plot" to the public.source
1678magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London. Titus Oates claims it as a proof of his allegations.source
1686As the Savoyard–Waldensian wars, draw to a close, the Duke of Savoy announces that the Protestant Valdisi defenders will be granted safe passage to Switzerland, and that children taken during the war will be allowed to return to their families. By January, a little more than 2,500 Valdisi take the offer.source
1691October 17 (October 7 O.S.) – In New England, the two separate colonies of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony are united into a single entity by an act of the King and Queen of England.source
1713The Battle of Pälkäne is fought in what is now Finland between Russia and Sweden, with Russia's Fyodor Arpaskin forcing Finnish troops under Carl Gustaf Armfeldt to withdraw.source
1722Habeas Corpus Suspension Act passed following the discovery of the Atterbury Plot, allowing the Crown to detain suspected conspirators against the State without trial for up to six months.source
1723A law is passed, in which the Riksdag of the Estates is granted power over the monarch and the royal council.source
1727With voting for the British House of Commons concluding, the Whigs, led by Sir Robert Walpole, increase their supermajority, winning 415 of the 558 seats. The Tories share of Commons decreases from 169 to 128.source
1727Hugh Williams (of Chester) retains his seat as MP for Anglesey.source
1727Bussy Manse becomes MP for Cardiff.source
1739The Foundling Hospital is created in London by royal charter.source
1739the Foundling Hospital in London, established by Thomas Coram, is granted its royal charter.source
1740October 9–22 – Batavia Massacre: Troops of the Dutch East India Company massacre at least 10,000 Chinese Indonesians in Batavia.source
1755The Mount Katla volcano erupts in Iceland and continues ejecting ash for the next 120 days, finally ceasing on February 13. An estimated 1.5 cubic kilometers (1.5 billion cubic meters or 53 billion cubic feet) of tephra is discharged by the volcano.source
1765The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that a Mr. McCullough, the Distributor of Stamps for the Royal Colony of North Carolina, has resigned his post in protest at the Stamp Act. A Dr. Huston is appointed to the position.source
1767Šćepan Mali, nicknamed "Stephen the Little", is selected as the legislature at Podgorica to be the Tsar of Montenegro, representing "a short but an important break in the succession of the Petrovic dynasty".source
1768Representatives of the Cherokee nation sign the Treaty of Hard Labour with British representative John Stuart and relinquish all claims to the land between the Ohio River and the Allegheny Mountains, now the United States state of West Virginia.source
1768The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is concluded.source
1771The opera Ascanio in Alba by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15, premieres in Milan.source
1776The Rutherford Light Horse expedition begins.source
1777Though aware of approaching relief, Burgoyne, having promised to capitulate, and fearing annihilation by a threatened attack, signs the capitulation. During its first session the Canadian Council passes sixteen ordinances, adopts English Commercial law, and constitutes itself a Court of Appeal, with final resort to the Privy Council in England.source
1777American Revolutionary War – Battle of Saratoga: British General John Burgoyne surrenders to the American troops.source
1777American Revolution – Battle of Saratoga: British General John Burgoyne surrenders to the American troops.source
1783Mozart's Great Mass is first performed, in Salzburg, Austria.source
1785The Commonwealth of Virginia stops the importation of new African slaves by declaring that "No persons shall henceforth be slaves within this commonwealth, except such as were so on the seventeenth day of October, 1785, and the descendants of the females of them."source
1797The Treaty of Campo Formio ends the War of the First Coalition.source
1798First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.source
1801A coup d'état is staged in the Batavian Republic.source
1805October 16–October 19 – War of the Third Coalition: Ulm Campaign – Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon, after being surrounded.source
1811The silver deposits of Agua Amarga in Chile are discovered becoming, in the following years, instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence.source
1813October 16–19 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Leipzig: Napoleon is defeated by the forces of the Sixth Coalition. More than 600,000 troops are in the field, with well over 10% killed, wounded or missing. Many of the German states forming the Confederation of the Rhine defect from Napoleon I to the Coalition, as a result of the battle.source
1814London Beer Flood: A large vat full of porter owned by Meux's Brewery of London bursts, demolishing buildings and killing 8 people.source
1814London Beer Flood: a large vat of porter in Meux's Brewery bursts, demolishing buildings and killing nine.source
1817The frigate HMS Trincomalee is launched in Bombay for the British Royal Navy. She will still be afloat two centuries later.source
1826Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh marry in Templand and set up home in Edinburgh.source
1829Kaspar Hauser is found wounded.source
1829Dom Pedro I marries Amélie of Leuchtenberg.source
1830Decree of the provisional government prohibiting importation of jenever from the Netherlands.source
1851The first Parsi-Muslim riot begins in Bombay, India.source
1854The Age newspaper is founded in Melbourne, Australia.source
1855Crimean War: Battle of Kinburn – Combined French and British forces subdue Russian shore forts. The successful use of French floating batteries makes this the first use of modern ironclad warships in action.source
1855Henry Bessemer files his patent in the United Kingdom for the Bessemer process of steelmaking.source
1860The first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick in Scotland, sometimes regarded as the first Open, although it is not truly open until the following year.source
1860The Open Championship, also known as the British Open, is played for the first time at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland. The event is won by Willie Park Srsource
1866October 7–21 – The Second Plenary Council of American Roman Catholic bishops is held in Baltimore.source
1866First confirmed death from a cholera epidemic in Carnarvon.source
1878John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.source
1879Sunderland Association Football Club is formed by a group of schoolteachers in northeast England.source
1885Caulfield Cup when 16 of the 44 horses competing fell, resulting in the death of 25-year-old jockey Donald Nicolson.source
1887French Indochina was established, comprising (Lower) Cochinchina, (Upper) Annam, Tonkin, and Cambodia.source
1898The Perth Zoo opens with two lions and a tiger.source
1899The Thousand Days' War begins in Colombia as Colombian Liberal Party soldiers led by General Rafael Uribe Uribe, with support from Venezuela, begin a fight against the government of National Party president Manuel Antonio Sanclemente. The war will continue for 1,130 days.source
1900Natural gas is found at Roma in Queenslandsource
1902First Cadillac completed, sold and sent to Buffalo, New Yorksource
1904Amadeo Giannini founds the Bank of Italy in San Francisco, predecessor of the Bank of America.source
1907Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.source
1912Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steel.source
1913Johannisthal air disaster occurs with an Imperial German Navy's L 2 airship's test flight resulted in the death of all 28 passengers and crew on boardsource
1921The founding of Taiwanese Cultural Association.source
1922first Hunger March sets out, from Glasgow to London.source
1933Scientist Albert Einstein arrives from Europe in the United States, where he settles permanently as a refugee from Nazi Germany and takes up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.source
1933Albert Einstein arrives in the United States, where he settles permanently as a refugee from Nazi Germany and takes up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.source
1943The Burma Railway is completed between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (modern-day Myanmar) (415 km) by the Empire of Japan, to support its forces in the Burma campaign, using the forced labour of Asian civilians and Allied Prisoners of war.source
1943The last commerce raider, German auxiliary cruiser Michel, is sunk off Japan by United States submarine Tarpon.source
1945A massive number of people, headed for the General Confederation of Labour (Argentina), gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to demand Juan Perón's release. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (Loyalty Day) and considered the founding day of Peronism.source
1949Chinese communist troops take Guangzhou.source
195217 October affair: Indonesian troops led by General Nasution surround the presidential palace, seeking the dismissal of the People's Representative Council; Sukarno avoids confrontation.source
1955Charles Mackenzie Bruff, forensic chemist (born 1887).source
1956The world's first industrial-scale commercial nuclear power plant is opened at Calder Hall in the UK.source
1956The Game of the Century (chess): 13-year-old Bobby Fischer beats grandmaster Donald Byrne, in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City.source
1958An Evening with Fred Astaire, the first television show recorded on color videotape, is broadcast on NBC in the United States.source
19611961 Paris massacre: French police in Paris attack about 30,000 people protesting against a curfew applied solely to Algerians. The official death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead.source
1962October 14–28 — The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.source
19631963–64 Balkans Cup: Albania defeats Turkey 2-0 at Selman Stërmasi Stadium, Tiranasource
1964596 (nuclear test): The People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang.source
1964October 10–24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.source
1965The New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, closes. Due to financial losses, some of the projected site park improvements fail to materialize.source
1965The New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, New York, closes. Due to financial losses, some of the projected site park improvements fail to materialize.source
1968The two marines were hanged for their roles in the MacDonald House bombing.source
1969Willard S. Boyle and George Smith invent the CCD at Bell Laboratories (30 years later, this technology is widely used in digital cameras).source
1970A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul.source
1970October Crisis: Quebec politician Pierre Laporte is found murdered by the FLQ in south Montreal.source
1971The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles to win the 1971 World Series.source
1973An OPEC oil embargo against several countries supporting Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis.source
1973Bernt Balchen, polar and aviation pioneer in America (born 1899).source
1975Swiss chemist of Croatian origin Vladimir Prelog receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistrysource
1977October 17–18 – German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm the hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; three of the four hijackers die.source
1979The Pittsburgh Pirates become only the fourth MLB team (as well as the only MLB franchise to accomplish the feat twice) to recover from a 3-games-to-1 deficit to win the 1979 World Series.source
1981October 14–21. A delegation of Solidarity visits France.source
1984Foyle Bridge in Derry is officially opened, with the longest span in Ireland.source
1989Egypt and Libya re-establish diplomatic relations that had been cut off in 1977.source
1989The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people are killed and the 1989 World Series in baseball is postponed for ten days as a result of the earthquake.source
1990A major financial service of Russia, VTB Bank is founded in Russia SSR, former part of Soviet Union, as predecessor name was Vneshtorg Bank.source
1990VTB Bank was founded.source
1991The first ever presidential election is held in Armenia, the result was a victory for Levon Ter-Petrosyan.source
1997The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.source
19981998 Jesse pipeline explosion: An oil pipeline explosion in Jesse, Nigeria results in 1,082 deaths.source
19991999 Estonian municipal elections.source
2000Hatfield rail crash: A Great North Eastern Railway Intercity 225 express train is derailed, killing four people and injuring many others, in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.source
2002The European Space Agency launches the INTEGRAL observatory.source
2004Robert Cheboror wins the Amsterdam Marathonsource
2005The final eclipse of 2005 was a partial lunar eclipse event, occurring at ascending node in Aries. This was 2.9 days after the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of 0.97960. A partial lunar eclipse was visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific and North America, and was the 10th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 146.source
2007October 15 – October 21 – The 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held in Beijing, China.source
2007John Njue, the newly appointed Archbishop of Nairobi, is now elevated to cardinal status. He became the second Kenyan cardinal, the other was Maurice Michael Otunga, who died in 2003.source
2013Microsoft releases Windows 8.1.source
2015The Guinea electoral commission reports that the President of Guinea Alpha Conde has won the election with 58 per cent of the vote.source
2017Syrian Civil War: Raqqa is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.source
2018A school shooting and bomb attack in Kerch, Crimea, kills 20 people and injures 70 others.source
2019Shootouts erupt in Culiacán, Mexico, after the arrest of El Chapo's son, Ovidio Guzmán López, on an arrest warrant for drug dealing in the United States. Eight people are killed and 56 convicts escape from prison; 7 are recaptured by October 18. Guzmán López is released in an effort to restore peace and to prevent more bloodshed.source
20202020 New Zealand general election: Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party wins a landslide second term in office, defeating the National Party led by Judith Collins and gaining the country's first parliamentary majority since the introduction of the MMP voting system.source
2021November 14 – The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is held in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and is won by Australia.source
2022October 16–October 23 – The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held. Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary by the Central Committee, beginning a third term as the paramount leader of China.source
2023Kaïs Saïed asked Minister of Finance Sihem Boughdiri to assume the portfolio of interim Minister of Economy and Planning following the dismissal of Samir Saïed from the position.source
2023Whoosh, the first high speed rail in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the Southern Hemisphere, opens.source
2023An explosion occurs at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where displaced Palestinians are taking refuge. Many fatalities are reported, but estimates vary significantly, from 100 to as many as 471, depending on the source.source

Births

503Lý Nam Đế, first emperor of Vietnam (died 548)source
1125Lu You, Chinese poet and writer (died 1210)source
1253Ivo of Kermartin, Breton priest and saint (died 1303)source
1304Eleanor de Bohun, English noblewoman (died 1363)source
1304James Butler, Irish nobleman and knight (died 1338)source
1488Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (died 1510)source
1493Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Renaissance Italian sculptor (died 1560)source
1500Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (died 1591)source
1517Amalia of Cleves, German princess and writer (died 1586)source
1577Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (died 1642)source
1582Johann Gerhard, Lutheran church leader (died 1637)source
1588Matthias Gallas, Austrian soldier (died 1647)source
1623Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian (died 1687)source
1629Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (died 1646)source
1688Domenico Zipoli, Italian-born composer (died 1726)source
1696Augustus III of Poland, King of Poland, Elector of Saxony (died 1763)source
175517 October (in Copenhagen, Denmark) - Envold de Falsen, lawyer, poet, actor and statesman (died 1808).source
1760Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist, political theorist (died 1825)source
1780Richard Mentor Johnson, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1829 and 9th vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 (died 1850)source
1785Gunatitanand Swami, born Mulji Sharma, Indian paramahamsa of the Hindu Swaminarayan Sampraday sect (died 1867)source
1817Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (Bahadaur), Indian founder of the Two Nation Theory for a future Pakistan (died 1898)source
1840Mirza Nasrullah Khan, first Iranian Prime Minister.source
1853Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, wife of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (died 1920)source
1885Mahmud Khan Puladeen, Iranian general.source
1915Arthur Miller, American playwright (died 2005)source
1919Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2005)source
1924Ülo Sooster, Estonian paintersource
1938Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (died 2007)source
1951Prabowo Subianto, Indonesian politician, businessman, retired honorary army general, 8th President of Indonesia.source
1972Eminem, American rapper and actorsource
1979Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish 2007 Formula 1 world championsource
2013Phanchanokchon Phansangsource

Deaths

532Pope Boniface II dies in Rome after a tenure of two years, four months and six days.source
866Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliphsource
866Caliph al-Musta'in is put to death, after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by al-Mu'tazz, who becomes the youngest Abbasid caliph to assume power.source
1232Idris al-Ma'mun, ruler of the Almohad Caliphatesource
1271Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic female poetsource
1277Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consortsource
1346Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn — killed in the Battle of Neville's Crosssource
1346John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray — killed in the Battle of Neville's Crosssource
1368Lionel, Duke of Clarence, second only to Edward the Black Prince as heir to the throne of England, dies in Italy at the age of 29, less than five months after her May 28 marriage to Violante Visconti, daughter of Galeazzo II Visconti Lord of Milan. Lionel's death, suspected to have been from accidental food poisoning, ends any chance for an alliance between England and Milan.source
1409Jean de Montaigu, royal favourite (born 1363)source
1456Nicolas Grenon, French composer (born 1375)source
1485John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Portssource
1552Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (born 1498)source
1575Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1511)source
1584Richard Gwyn, Welsh Catholic martyr, canonisedsource
1586Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier and soldier (born 1554)source
1600Cornelis de Jode, cartographer, engraver and publishersource
1604Ingeborg Skeel, noble, land owner and county sheriff (born c.1545)source
1673Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (born 1630)source
1690Margaret Mary Alacoque, Catholic Saint and Mystic (born 1647)source
1753François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil, a soldier and trader. (born 1710)source
1806Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Jean-Jacques Dessalines) is assassinated at the Pont-Rouge, Haiti, and Alexandre Pétion becomes first President of the Republic of Haiti.source
1837Peter Lebeck, French trapper and namesake of Lebec, California (birth unknown)source
1837Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer (born 1778)source
1849Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician, composer (born 1810)source
1861Australian frontier wars: Cullin-la-ringo massacre – 19 white settlers are murdered by indigenous Australians, following which more than 300 of the latter are killed in retaliation.source
1868Laura Secord, Canadian patriot (born 1775)source
1887Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (born 1824)source
1893Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general, politician, and 1st president of the Third Republic (1875-1879) (born 1808)source
1938Karl Kautsky, Austrian Marxist theoretician (born 1854)source
1967Puyi, last Emperor of China (born 1906)source
2007Taku, 14, American orca at SeaWorld San Antonio.source