Eventos el 17 June 50
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Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt in Paris.
Año 1462
Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
Año 1497
Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
Año 1579
Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
Año 1596
The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
Año 1631
Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
Año 1673
French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
Año 1767
Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.