Events on 13 May 56
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Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
Year 1515
Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, are officially married at Greenwich.
Year 1568
Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
Year 1619
Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
Year 1779
War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
Year 1787
Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
Year 1804
Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
Birthdays on 13 May 277
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Deaths on 13 May 89
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