Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome

Event

Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe

Event

Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies

Death

Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany

Event

Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed

Event

Jews are massacred in Toledo and Barcelona Spain

Event

Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers

Event

Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina

Event

Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Arag¢n captured by Genuezen

Event

Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating

Birth

French and Turkish troops occupy Nice

Event

Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)

Event

Spanish troops conquer Lock

Event

John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized

Birth

Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer

Birth

Antonio Cesti, composer

Birth

William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America

Birth

J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61

Death

French troops occupy Stenay

Event

English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter

Event

State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict

Event

Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer

Birth

Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer

Birth

Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks

Event

Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots

Event