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1660 – The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.; 1891 – Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
1801 – Melchior Berri, Swiss architect and educator, designed the Natural History Museum of Basel (d. 1854) 1808 – Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (d. 1875) 1819 – Báb, Iranian religious leader, founded Bábism (d. 1850) 1822 – Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and judge (d. 1896)
27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. [1]532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing season at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, as a result of discontent with the rule of the Emperor Justinian I.
1613 – Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate at Whitehall Palace, London. [7]1655 – The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.
September 13 falls on Friday this year. Even though you may think Friday the 13th is cursed, some great things have happened on this date.
1608 – In Ireland, O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry. [5]1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops. [6]1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria ...
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1826 – Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that led to his mysterious disappearance.