📜 Events

• 1 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
• 2 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.
• 3 536 – Election of pope Silverius following the death of pope Agapetus I earlier that year.
• 4 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
• 5 1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.
• 6 1057 – The Byzantine general Isaac Komnenos is proclaimed Byzantine Emperor in opposition to reigning emperor Michael VI Bringas.
• 7 1191 – English forces under King Richard I arrive in Acre, joining the already arrived French and German forces of the Third Crusade.
• 8 1663 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.
• 9 1772 – Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic.
• 10 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
• 11 1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• 12 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
• 13 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
• 14 1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
• 15 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.

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