Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago

Event

Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies

Death

Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies

Death

Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher

Birth

Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73)

Birth

Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre

Event

Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne

Birth

Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle

Event

George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury

Birth

Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68

Death

Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX

Event

Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason

Death

Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]

Birth

William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania

Event

England/Netherlands sign anti-French "BarriŠretraktaat"

Event

Severe earthquake in New England

Event

James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer

Birth

Andr‚-Marie Ch‚nier, French poet (El‚gies)

Birth

Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66

Death

Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)

Event

Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66

Death

French troops occupies Venlo

Event

Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95

Death

1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

Event

"Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched

Event