📜 Events

• 1 456 – Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
• 2 690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
• 3 912 – Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba.
• 4 955 – King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
• 5 1311 – The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
• 6 1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
• 7 1590 – Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
• 8 1736 – Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
• 9 1780 – American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
• 10 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
• 11 1793 – French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
• 12 1793 – War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
• 13 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.
• 14 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the four-day Battle of Leipzig.
• 15 1817 – Italian explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, uncovered the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings.

🎂 Births

🕊️ Deaths