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636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire.

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685 - John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

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1253 - Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III.

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1298 - Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany.

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1599 - Caravaggio's first public commission for paintings.

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1622 - Portuguese treasure ship Sao Jose sailing from Lisbon to Goa on the west coast of India sinks off the southeast coast of Africa. Aboard the ship were nine chests filled with tens of thousands of silver coins for the empire's trading posts in the Far East and India.

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1641 - Spanish galleon Mestra Señora de la pura y Limpia Concepción leaves Vera Cruz, bound for Havana and Spain.

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1649 - Birth of Pope Clement XI (dies 1721).

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1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt.

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1803 - Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin.

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