Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor
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Consecration of Pope Adeodatus II following the death of Pope Vitalian.
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Head of the Catholic Church from 672 to 676
Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
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Founder and first Khan of the Golden Horde (r. 1227–1255)
War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d’Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces.
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Fourth & Fifth phase of the Italian Wars (1508–1516)
Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole
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Ninth phase of the Italian Wars
William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain on the same day that the Scottish Parliament concurs with the English decision of 12 February.
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King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702
France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Utrecht
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1713–1715 peace treaties ending the War of the Spanish Succession
Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig
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German composer (1685–1750)
Battle of the Basque Roads: Admiral Lord Gambier fails to support Captain Lord Cochrane
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1809 naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars
The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte
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Peace treaty exiling Napoleon to Elba
Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
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1856 battle of the Filibuster War
Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces
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Military nobility of Japan (1185–1868)
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
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American fraternal order
Spelman College is founded in Atlanta
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Historically Black women's college in Atlanta, Georgia, US
Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
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Title of high office in the Muslim world
Stresa Front: opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
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1935 agreement between France, Italy, and Britain
World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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1939–1945 global conflict