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{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === *[[678]] &ndash; [[Pope Agatho]] is elected. *[[1358]] &ndash; The [[Republic of Dubrovnik]] is founded. *[[1497]] &ndash; [[Cornwall|Cornish]] rebels [[Michael An Gof]] and [[Thomas Flamank]] are executed at Tyburn, [[London]], [[England]]. *[[1556]] &ndash; The thirteen [[Stratford]] [[martyr]]s are burned at the stake near [[London]] for their [[Protestantism|Protestant]] beliefs. *[[1709]] &ndash; [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] defeats [[Charles XII of Sweden]] at the [[Battle of Poltava]]. *[[1715]] &ndash; In a [[war]] with [[Venice]], 40,000 [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[soldier]]s land in the [[Peloponnese]], present-day [[Greece]]. *[[1743]] &ndash; [[War of the Austrian Succession]]: [[Battle of Dettingen]] – on the [[battle]]field in [[Bavaria]], King [[George II of Great Britain]] leads his troops into battle. It is the last time that a British [[monarch]] would command troops on the field. *[[1759]] &ndash; General [[James Wolfe]] starts siege of [[Quebec]]. *[[1760]] &ndash; [[Cherokee]] warriors defeat British forces at the [[Battle of Echoee]] near present-day Otto, [[North Carolina]] during the [[Anglo-Cherokee War]]. *[[1806]] &ndash; The British capture [[Buenos Aires]]. *[[1844]] &ndash; [[Joseph Smith, Jr]] and his brother Hyrum murdered in Carthage Jail, [[Carthage, Illinois]]. *[[1864]] &ndash; [[Battle of Kennesaw Mountain]] in the [[American Civil War]]. *[[1867]] &ndash; The [[Bank of California]] opens its doors *[[1893]] &ndash; Crash of the [[New York Stock Exchange]]. *[[1898]] &ndash; First solo [[circumnavigation]] of the globe completed by [[Joshua Slocum]] from [[Briar Island]] [[Nova Scotia]]. *[[1899]] &ndash; [[A. E. J. Collins]] scores 628 not-out, a record score in [[cricket]]. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === *[[1905]] &ndash; Mutiny on the battleship ''[[Potemkin]]''. *[[1927]] &ndash; [[Prime Minister of Japan]] [[Tanaka Giichi]] leads a [[conference]] to discuss [[Japan]]'s plans for [[China]]. *[[1941]] &ndash; [[Rom