Events on 20 September 45
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Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
Year 1260
The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
Year 1378
Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
Year 1498
The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
Year 1519
Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
Year 1697
The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688-97).
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Deaths on 20 September 92
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