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{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1099]] &ndash; [[First Crusade]]: [[Christian]] soldiers take [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]] in [[Jerusalem]] after a difficult siege. * [[1149]] &ndash; The rebuilt [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]] is consecrated in [[Jerusalem]]. * [[1207]] &ndash; [[John of England]] expels Canterbury monks for supporting [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] [[Stephen Langton]]. * [[1240]] &ndash; [[Sweden|Swedish]]–[[Novgorod]]ian Wars: A [[Novgorod]]ian [[army]] led by [[Alexander Nevsky]] defeats the Swedes at the Battle of the Neva. * [[1381]] &ndash; [[John Ball (priest)|John Ball]], a leader in the [[Peasants' Revolt]], [[Drawing and quartering|hanged, drawn and quartered]] in the presence of [[Richard II of England]]. * [[1410]] &ndash; [[Battle of Grunwald]] (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris): power of the [[Teutonic Knights]] broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians. * [[1482]] &ndash; [[Muhammad XII of Granada]] becomes the 22nd and last Nasrid [[King]] of [[Granada]]. * [[1685]] &ndash; [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth]] is executed at Tower Hill, [[England]] after his defeat at the [[Battle of Sedgemore]] on [[6 July]] [[1685]]. * [[1741]] &ndash; [[Aleksei Chirikov]] sights land in Southeast [[Alaska]] and sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first [[Europe]]an to land in mainland [[Alaska]]. * [[1789]] &ndash; [[Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette]], by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new [[National Guard of Paris]]. * [[1799]] &ndash; [[Rosetta Stone]] is found in the [[Egypt]]ian village of [[Rosetta]], by [[France|French]] Captain [[Pierre-François Bouchard]]. * [[1806]] &ndash; [[Pike expedition]]: Near [[St. Louis, Missouri]], [[United States Army]] Lieutenant [[Zebulon Pike]] begins an expedition from [[Fort Belle Fountaine]] to explore the west. * [[1815]] &ndash; [[Napoléon Bonaparte]] surrenders from aboard [[HMS Bellerophon|HMS ''Bellerophon'']]. * [[1834]] &ndash; The [[Spanish Inquisition]] is officially disbanded afte