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Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
Year 1147
Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
Year 1415
Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeat the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day.
Year 1616
Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
Year 1747
British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
Year 1812
War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
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