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October 20 in history

206 sourced entries recorded on October 20, from 362 CE to 2023 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 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
  • 1168Amalric I invades Egypt again from Ascalon, sacking Bilbeis and threatening Cairo. In November, a Crusader fleet sails up the Nile and arrives in Lake Manzala, sacking the town of Tanis.source
  • 1223Otto I, Duke of Merania, issues five charters for lavish donations to religious communities.source
  • 1308The English Parliament begins its fourth session of the reign of King Edward II and meets at Westminster.source
  • 1309In what is now central Myanmar, the coronation of Thihathu as the monarch of the Myinsaing Kingdom takes place.source
  • 1349Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.source
  • 1370Philip of Anjou, Titular Emperor of Constantinople, marries his second wife Elizabeth of Slavonia (daughter of Stephen of Anjou and Margaret of Bavaria).source
  • 1379King Richard II issues a summons directing the English Parliament to assemble on January 16.source
  • 1382Winchester College is founded in England.source
  • 1407The English Parliament is opened at Gloucester after being summoned on August 26 by King Henry IV, and is marked by arguments between the House of Lords and the House of Commons over primacy and initiation of money bills.source
  • 1421King Henry V summons the English Parliament for the last time in his life, directing the members to assemble at Westminster on December 1.source
  • 1423The Second Parliament of King Henry VI of England assembles after having been summoned on September 1. The House of Commons, led by John Russell, will consider laws until its adjournment on February 28.source
  • 1444As the Christian crusaders begin their approach to the Black Sea, the former Ottoman Sultan Murad II comes out of retirement at Bursa to assume command of the Ottoman troops.source
  • 1445Richard, Duke of York returns to England after five years as the English commander in France during the Hundred Years Warsource
  • 1448After three days of fighting at the Battle of Kosovo, Hungarian forces under John Hunyadi are defeated by the larger Ottoman force commanded by the Sultan Murad IIsource
  • 1453The last English holdouts in Gascony (including Bordeaux) surrender to France, ending the Hundred Years' War.source
  • 1494The Siege of Mordano takes place.source
  • 1496Joanna of Castile, second daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, heiress to Castile, marries the archduke Philip, heir through his mother to the Burgundian Netherlands, and through his father to the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1528The Treaty of Gorinchem is signed between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Charles, Duke of Guelders.source
  • 1545The "New Laws"(Leyes Nuevas), officially the New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians are repealed less than a year after being issued by King Carlos of Spain.source
  • 1548The city of La Paz, Bolivia, is founded.source
  • 1565In the Northern Seven Years' War, the Battle of Axtorna is fought in Sweden, near Falkenberg, as Daniel Rantzau of the Army of Denmark and Norway leads 7,400 troops in defeating a counterattack by over 11,000 Swedish troops led by Jacob Henriksson Hästesko.source
  • 1568Battle of Jodoigne: Spanish forces under the Duke of Alba destroy William the Silent's rearguard and William abandons his offensive.source
  • 1572Eighty Years' War – Relief of Goes: Soldiers of the Spanish Tercios wade across the estuary of the Scheldt, to relieve the siege of Goes in the Spanish Netherlands.source
  • 1573Planter Thomas Smith the younger is shot in Ards.source
  • 1576Spanish rebels plunder the city of Maastricht in Flanders and kill many of the civilian residents in what is later called the "Spaanse Furie" or Fury of Spain.source
  • 1579Nicolò Doria is elected to a two-year term as the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa. Sergio Buonadonna and Mario Marcenaro, Rosso Doge: I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797 (De Ferrari Press, 2000).source
  • 1587Huguenot and Royalist forces clashed at the Battle of Coutras. Hugeunots under Henry of Navarre won the battle.source
  • 1600Persian diplomats, led by Husayn 'Ali Beg of Persia, and Englishman Anthony Shirley (who serves as translator) arrive in Prague to meet with Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • 1623Cardinal Antonio Marcello Barberini informs Galileo Galilei that his brother, the newly-enthroned Pope Urban VIII, wishes to receive a visit from Galileo.source
  • 1634King Charles I issues writs to raise ship money from coastal ports to finance the Royal Navysource
  • 1646Nicolas de Neufville is promoted to marshal of Francesource
  • 1650Christina, Queen of Sweden, who has been the legal ruler of Sweden for almost 18 years, has an elaborate coronation ceremony at the castle of Jacobsdal near Stockholm. The coronation had originally been planned for her 18th birthday in 1644 but was delayed by a war with Denmark-Norway.source
  • 1653The Battle of Bordeaux is fought between French and Spanish warships in the Gironde estuary of France as part of the Franco-Spanish War. The Spanish fleet of 30 warships, under the command of Álvaro de Bazán y Manrique de Lara, Marquis of Santa Cruz, overwhelms the French fleet of César, Duke of Vendôme and captures ten galleys and brigantines, as well as burning four other warships and 15 barges.source
  • 1687An estimated 8.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 50 km off of the coast of Peru and kills at least 5,000 people, primarily from a tsunami that washes away the city of Pisco and causes severe damage to the Spanish colonial cities of Lima, Callao and Ica.source
  • 1696The Imperial Russian Navy is founded on the recommendation of Tsar Peter the Great and approval by the Russian Duma.source
  • 1714The coronation of George I of Great Britain and Ireland takes place in Westminster Abbey, a little less than three months after George became the new British monarch.source
  • 1726dedication of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London as designed by James Gibbs.source
  • 1728October 20–23 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 (the largest in the Danish city's history) burns.source
  • 1728The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 breaks out.source
  • 1740October 9–22 – Batavia Massacre: Troops of the Dutch East India Company massacre at least 10,000 Chinese Indonesians in Batavia.source
  • 1740Maria Theresa inherits the hereditary dominions of the Habsburg monarchy (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and modern-day Belgium) under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 on the death of her father, Charles VI. Her succession to the Holy Roman Empire is contested widely because she is a woman, but she will reign for 40 years.source
  • 1766Christian Tychsen is appointed as governor of the Danish Gold Coast as the first on a regular basis.source
  • 1774The First Continental Congress passes the Continental Association, a colony-wide boycotting of British goods. Theater performances in the American colonies are also halted, on the Congress's recommendation that the member colonies "discountenance and discourage all horse racing and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays, and other expensive diversions and entertainments."source
  • 1778First issue of Stockholms-Postensource
  • 1781A Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in the Habsburg monarchy.source
  • 1795The United States signs a treaty with Spain, opening commerce along the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and establishing boundaries between U.S. territory and Spanish Florida.source
  • 1803The Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, doubling the size of the United States.source
  • 1805Shoragel sultanate surrenderssource
  • 1806British ship of the line HMS Athenienne is wrecked in the Strait of Sicily with the loss of 347 of the 488 on board.source
  • 1806HMS Athenienne is wrecked in the Strait of Sicily with the loss of 347 of the 488 onboard.source
  • 1810Jean Baptiste Bernadotte arrives in Sweden.source
  • 1818A treaty between the U.S. and the United Kingdom establishes the boundary between the U.S. and British North America as the 49th parallel, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.source
  • 1822The Congress of Verona opens in the Austrian-ruled province of Lombardy-Venetia. The event is the largest diplomatic gathering since the Congress of Vienna seven years earlier. The Congress lasts until December 14, and Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain.source
  • 1827Greek War of Independence: Battle of Navarino – British, French and Russian naval forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece. This is the last naval action to be fought under sail alone.source
  • 1827Battle of Navarino: A combined British, French and Russian naval force destroys a combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada.source
  • 1827Battle of Navarino (Greek War of Independence): British, French and Russian naval forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece. This is the last naval action to be fought under sail alone.source
  • 1830Thomas Cochrane is granted a patent for the first airlock.source
  • 1832Principal Chief Levi Colbert (Itawamba Mingo) and other leaders of the Chickasaw Nation of American Indians sign the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek with the United States, ceding their remaining 9,400 square miles of land to the U.S., in return for a promise that they will receive all proceeds of sales of the land by the federal government to private owners, along with expenses for relocation and food and supplies for one year. The area ceded includes the entire northern one-sixth of the state of Mississippi.source
  • 1832Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella replaces Félix de Muelenaere as Prime Ministersource
  • 1833Alfred, Lord Tennyson, publishes his oft-quoted poem, Ulysses.source
  • 1842Races are held on the beach at Petone.source
  • 1860October 18–21 – Beijing's Old Summer Palace is burned to the ground by orders of British general Lord Elgin, in retaliation for mistreatment of several prisoners of war, during the Second Opium War.source
  • 1866October 7–21 – The Second Plenary Council of American Roman Catholic bishops is held in Baltimore.source
  • 1868Pedro Figueredo creates the Cuban national anthem, El Himno de Bayamo.source
  • 1868English astronomer Norman Lockyer observes and names the D 3 Fraunhofer line in the solar spectrum, and concludes that it is caused by a hitherto unidentified element, which he later names helium.source
  • 1868astronomer Norman Lockyer observes and names the D 3 Fraunhofer line in the solar spectrum and concludes that it is caused by a hitherto unidentified chemical element which he later names helium.source
  • 1870A 6.6 earthquake shakes the Canadian province of Quebec, killing 6 people.source
  • 1871The Royal Regiment of Artillery forms the first regular Canadian army units, when they create two batteries of garrison artillery, which later become the Royal Canadian Artillery.source
  • 1882The steamer Clan MacDuff sinks off Holyhead, resulting in 32 deaths.source
  • 1882The Victory, a Bideford schooner carrying coal from Cardiff to Waterford, sinks near Ballyteique with the loss of all crew.source
  • 1883Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to Chile, ending Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.source
  • 1889Portuguese legislative election, 1889source
  • 1894The railway line between Lourenço Marques and Pretoria is completed at Balmoral.source
  • 1898The first residents of the "cooperative socialist colony", created by the Cooperative Brotherhood, arrive at what is now Burley, Washington in Kitsap County, settling on 260 acres of land purchased by the Brotherhood.source
  • 1899In the first major clash of the Second Boer War, the Battle of Talana Hill, the British Army drives the Boers from a hilltop position, but with heavy casualties, including their commanding general Sir Penn Symons.source
  • 1904The Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1904) is signed.source
  • 1909the Trade Boards Act, a form of minimum wage legislation, is passed.source
  • 1910The hull of White Star ocean liner RMS Olympic is launched, at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.source
  • 1911Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Amundsen's expedition sets out for the South Pole from his base camp.source
  • 1912October 18–21 – First Balkan War: The Greek navy captures the island of Lemnos for use as a forward base against the Dardanelles.source
  • 1916Black Friday (1916): A violent and deadly storm hits Lake Erie in the United States.source
  • 1920Order of Vitéz foundedsource
  • 1920Over 400,000 workers engage in a general strike that lasts until 28 October.source
  • 1921Treaty of Ankara signed between the French Third Republic and the Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, ending the Franco-Turkish War.source
  • 1922Kjell Bloch Sandved, author, lecturer and nature photographer.source
  • 1923Essendon wins the Premiership of the 1923 VFL season, defeating Fitzroy 8.15 (63) to 6.10 (46) at the MCG.source
  • 1925October 19–29 – Incident at Petrich: A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and is shot by border guards.source
  • 1926A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba.source
  • 1929October 18–24: battle at Zhengzhou, Henan between Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and National Revolutionary Armysource
  • 1930The British Passfield white paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine.source
  • 1934October 20–November 3 – Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco, in the Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.source
  • 1934November 5 – The MacRobertson Air Race is flown from RAF Mildenhall in England to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate the centenary of the state of Victoria. The overall winner is the British de Havilland DH.88 Comet G-ACSS Grosvenor House, flown by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black.source
  • 1935Census (Population 16,158,018)source
  • 1936British woman Mabel Freer is refused entry to Australia on morality grounds, sparking a political controversy.source
  • 1937October 18–21 – Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands; Republican forces in Gijón, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.source
  • 1944American and Filipino troops (with Filipino guerrillas) begin the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines. American forces land on Red Beach in Palo, Leyte, as General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines with Philippine Commonwealth president Sergio Osmeña and Armed Forces of the Philippines Generals Basilio J. Valdes and Carlos P. Romulo. American forces land on the beaches in Dulag, Leyte, accompanied by Filipino troops entering the town, and fiercely opposed by the Japanese occupation forces. The combined forces liberate Tacloban.source
  • 1947A war begins in Kashmir, along the border between India and Pakistan, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948. Also, Pakistan establishes diplomatic relations with the United States of America.source
  • 1948Brandeis University is formally founded in Massachusetts.source
  • 1949China People's Insurance Corporation, as predecessor of China Life was founded.source
  • 1952Martial law is declared in Kenya, in the face of the Mau Mau uprising.source
  • 1955Disc jockey Bill Randle of WERE (Cleveland) is the key presenter of a concert at Brooklyn High School (Ohio), featuring Pat Boone and Bill Haley & His Comets and opening with Elvis Presley, not only Elvis's first performance north of the Mason–Dixon line, but also his first filmed performance, for a documentary on Randle titled The Pied Piper of Cleveland.source
  • 1957A new Central Executive Committee of the PAP is formed with Toh Chin Chye as chairman and Lee Kuan Yew as Secretary-General.source
  • 1957Two trains collide at Yarımburgaz in Turkey; 95 die.source
  • 1957Yarımburgaz train disaster, the worst train accident with 95 dead and 150 wounded peoplesource
  • 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
  • 1962The Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (India and the People's Republic of China), erupts into fighting.source
  • 1964October 10–24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.source
  • 1965Amos Mansdorf, Israeli tennis player.source
  • 1967Australia unlinks the Australian dollar from British currency, when the British government makes a decision to devalue the pound sterling.source
  • 1967Patterson–Gimlin film: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin's famous film of an unidentified animate cryptid, thought to be Bigfoot or Sasquatch, is recorded at Bluff Creek, California.source
  • 1969Experimental research showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks, is published.source
  • 1970New Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.source
  • 1970The Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe.source
  • 1972Provinces in State of Emergency are raised to 20.source
  • 1973The Saturday Night Massacre: U.S. President Richard Nixon orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General Robert Bork, third in line at the Department of Justice, then fires Cox. The event prompts calls for Nixon's impeachment.source
  • 1973The Sydney Opera House in Australia is opened by Queen Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work.source
  • 1976The Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, Louisiana to Luling, Louisiana, killing 78 passengers and crew.source
  • 1977Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi, three days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors.source
  • 1978The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held as a protest march and commemoration of the Stonewall riots.source
  • 1979The first McDonald's in Singapore opens at Liat Towers in Orchard Road.source
  • 1980In continuous production since 1962, the last MG MGB roadster rolls off the assembly line at the Abingdon-on-Thames (England) factory, ending production for the MG Cars marque.source
  • 1981October 14–21. A delegation of Solidarity visits France.source
  • 1982Luzhniki disaster: During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death.source
  • 1984Monterey Bay Aquarium is opened to the public after seven years of development and construction.source
  • 1988The Los Angeles Dodgers won 4 games to 1 in the 1988 World Series against the Oakland Athletics.source
  • 198920 October–27 October – The South Asian Games take place in Islamabad.source
  • 1991A large suburban firestorm centered in Oakland Hills, California, kills 25 people and injures 150 others.source
  • 1991A 6.8 M w earthquake strikes Uttarkashi, India, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes.source
  • 1998Boris Yeltsin announces he will not seek reelection in 2000.source
  • 2000A massive power outage affects most parts of Luzon including Metro Manila, caused by system failures in the transmission lines of the National Power Corporation in Pangasinan and Bulacan; electricity was fully restored 16 hours later.source
  • 2003October 20–21 APEC Thailand 2003 took place in Bangkok, Thailand.source
  • 2005The general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passes the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.source
  • 2007October 15 – October 21 – The 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held in Beijing, China.source
  • 2009Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is inaugurated for a second term as President of Indonesia.source
  • 2009WikiLeaks leaked the membership listing of a radical political group known as the British National Party.source
  • 2011Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968.source
  • 2011Heavy storms and floods causes at least 50 deaths in the south of Honduras, specially in the Choluteca Department.source
  • 2014Joko Widodo is inaugurated as the 7th President of Indonesia.source
  • 2018700,000 people march through central London demanding a second referendum on the final Brexit deal. The event is the second most attended protest of the 21st century in the United Kingdom after the "Stop the War" anti-Iraq War march in 2003.source
  • 2018President Trump announces that the US will "terminate" the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty over alleged Russian violations.source
  • 2020NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touches down on Bennu, becoming the agency's first probe to retrieve samples from an asteroid, with its cargo later successfully returning to Earth on September 24, 2023.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
  • 20235 November: Barbados at the 2023 Pan American Gamessource

Births

  • 888Zhu Youzhen, emperor of Later Liang (died 923)source
  • 1258Bolko I, Polish co-ruler (House of Piast) (died 1313)source
  • 1275Chungseon of Goryeo (or Wang Jang), Korean ruler (died 1325)source
  • 1463October 20 or October 29 – Alessandro Achillini, Bolognese philosopher (died 1512)source
  • 1475Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, Italian Renaissance man of letters (died 1525)source
  • 1496Claude, Duke of Guise, French aristocrat and general (died 1550)source
  • 1496Claude, Duke of Guisesource
  • 1509Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, Scottish prince (died 1510)source
  • 1603Simon de Vos, Flemish painter (died 1676)source
  • 1612Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, cavalier and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (died 1698)source
  • 1614October 20 (bapt.) – Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, Flemish alchemist (died 1698)source
  • 1616Thomas Bartholin, physician, mathematician, and theologian (died 1680)source
  • 1620Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (died 1691)source
  • 1632Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer and mathematician (died 1723)source
  • 1650Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, English peer and courtier (died 1717)source
  • 1656Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (died 1746)source
  • 1660Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d.1723)source
  • 1677Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland (died 1766)source
  • 1700Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (died 1761)source
  • 1780Pauline Bonaparte, Italian noblewoman (died 1825)source
  • 1784Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1865)source
  • 1819The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi Faith (died 1850)source
  • 1854Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (died 1891)source
  • 1859John Dewey, American philosopher, psychologist and educator (died 1952)source
  • 1901Adelaide Hall, American jazz singer, entertainer (died 1993)source
  • 1931Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (died 1995)source
  • 1950Tom Petty, American rock singer (died 2017)source
  • 1964Kamala Harris, politician and attorney, 49th vice president of the United Statessource
  • 1968Cao, footballer who spent his career in Portugalsource

Deaths

  • 362Theodoret of Antioch, Syrian Christian priest and martyrsource
  • 362Artemius, Egyptian Orthodox martyr and saintsource
  • 460Aelia Eudocia, Roman empress and wife of Theodosius IIsource
  • 967Li Yixing, Chinese governorsource
  • 1122Ralph d'Escures, English archbishopsource
  • 1138Bolesław III Wrymouth dies after a 31-year reign. He divides Poland among his sons: Władysław II the Exile receives Silesia and the Senioral territories – which include the Kraków and Łęczyca regions, as well as parts of Kujawy and Greater Poland (Wielkopolska). Bolesław IV the Curly receives Masovia and Mieszko III the Old receives the newly established Duchy of Greater Poland. The 7-year-old Henry becomes duke of Sandomierz. Bolesław's last son, Casimir II the Just], receives nothing, as he is born 8 days after his father's death.source
  • 1139Henry the Proud (Henry X), Duke of Bavariasource
  • 1187Pope Urban III dies after a 2½-year pontificate at Ferrara. He is succeeded by Gregory VIII as the 173rd pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 1187Urban III, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1120)source
  • 1401Klaus Störtebeker, German piratesource
  • 1423Henry Bowet, Archbishop of Yorksource
  • 1438Jacopo della Quercia, Sienese sculptor (born c. 1374)source
  • 1439Ambrose the Camaldulian, Italian theologiansource
  • 1465Near Sint-Truiden in what is now Belgium, Charles the Bold, son of the Duke of Burgundy leads his troops to victory over the rebellious province of Liege at the Battle of Montenaken, and 1,200 of the rebels are killed.source
  • 1524Thomas Linacre, English humanist and physician (born 1460)source
  • 1538Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, condottiero (born 1490)source
  • 1570Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect (born 1521)source
  • 1570João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496)source
  • 1575Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (born 1523)source
  • 1587Anne de Joyeuse, Duke of Joyeuse, French commander, (born 1560)source
  • 1587Battle of Coutras: Huguenot forces under Henry of Navarre defeat Royalist forces under Anne de Joyeuse, favorite of King Henry III of France; Joyeuse is killed.source
  • 1587Anne de Joyeuse, French noble and commander (born 1560)source
  • 1602Walter Leveson, English Elizabethan Member of Parliament, Shropshire landowner (born 1550)source
  • 1631Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1550)source
  • 1740Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1685)source
  • 1842Grace Darling, English heroine (born 1815)source
  • 1890Richard Francis Burton, English explorer, linguist, soldier (born 1821)source
  • 1926Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political leader (born 1855)source
  • 1929José Batlle y Ordóñez, 3-time President of Uruguay (born 1856)source
  • 1964Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States (born 1874)source
  • 2011Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forces taking control of the city and ending the war.source
  • 2011Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader (1969–2011), shooting.source
  • 2014October 18 - 22 people are killed in heavy rainfall, with 9 killed in the capital of Managua by a wall collapse.source