Events on 13 January 47
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Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
Year 1793
Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
Year 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
Year 1815
War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
Year 1822
The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
Year 1833
United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
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