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678 - Saint Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

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1462 - Birth of Louis XII (the Just) king of France (1498-1515).

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1550 - Birth of Charles IX king of France (1560-74).

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1682 - Birth of Charles XII king of Sweden (1697-1718).

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1693 - First woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published (London).

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1743 - English defeat French at Dettingen.

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1806 - Buenos Aires captured by British.

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1829 - James Smithson dies, his will established Smithsonian Institute.

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1833 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy.

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1838 - Birth of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Bengali novelist (Anandamath).

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