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Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
Year 868
A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
Year 1310
In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.
Year 1502
Christopher Columbus departs Cádiz on his fourth and final voyage to the Americas.
Year 1647
Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
Year 1745
War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
Year 1792
Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
Year 1812
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
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