Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor

Event

Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English

Event

Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle

Death

Willem III becomes earl of Holland

Event

Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia)

Birth

Louise of Savoye, French mother/regentes of king Fran‡ois I

Birth

Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical

Birth

Pierre de Ronsard, poet

Birth

Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91)

Birth

Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm

Event

Thomas Erpenius, [van Erpe], Dutch orientalist/arabist (grammar)

Birth

Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35

Death

Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58

Death

Philipp Buchner, composer

Birth

John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide

Death

Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol

Event

Johann Stobaeus, composer, dies at 66

Death

-13] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [OS]

Event

Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists

Event

Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred

Event

Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power

Event

James Thomson, songwriter (Rule Britannia)

Birth

Hamilton, Scottish(?) general (Malplaquet), dies in battle

Death

Battle at Malplaquet: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France

Event

Spaar, German(?) general (Malplaquet), dies in battle

Death