Events on 17 June 50
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Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt in Paris.
Year 1462
Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
Year 1497
Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
Year 1579
Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
Year 1596
The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
Year 1631
Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
Year 1673
French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
Year 1767
Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
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Deaths on 17 June 93
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