📜 Events

• 1 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
• 2 581 – Yang Jian declares himself Emperor Wen of Sui, ending the Northern Zhou and beginning the Sui dynasty.
• 3 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
• 4 938 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
• 5 1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.
• 6 1171 – Alexios II Komnenos is crowned Bzyantine co-emperor to his father Manuel I Komnenos.
• 7 1238 – The Battle of the Sit River begins two centuries of Mongol horde domination of Rus.
• 8 1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
• 9 1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
• 10 1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
• 11 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
• 12 1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
• 13 1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
• 14 1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands, marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• 15 1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.

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