📜 Events

• 1 238 – During the year of Six Emperors, forces of Gordian I and Gordian II are defeated by those of Maximinus Thrax in the battle of Carthage.
• 2 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 3 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
• 4 847 – Election of Pope Leo IV following the death of Pope Sergius II.
• 5 1407 – Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama visits the Ming dynasty capital at Nanjing and is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".
• 6 1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
• 7 1545 – The settlement of Villa Imperial de Carlos V (now the city of Potosí) in Bolivia is founded after the discovery of huge silver deposits in the area.
• 8 1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
• 9 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
• 10 1717 – Robert Walpole resigns from the British government, commencing the Whig Split which lasts until 1720.
• 11 1724 – Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, his first cantata composed for Easter in Leipzig.
• 12 1741 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
• 13 1796 – War of the First Coalition: A surprise Austrian attack at the Battle of Voltri marks the beginning of the Italian Campaign of 1796-1797, the decisive campaign under Napoleon Bonaparte that will end the war a year later.
• 14 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
• 15 1814 – Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington attack Toulouse held by Marshall Soult, driving out the French after fierce fighting.

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