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Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
Year 1282
The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
Year 1296
Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
Year 1815
Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
Year 1842
Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
Year 1844
One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
Year 1855
Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
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