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{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[648 BC]] &ndash; Earliest [[solar eclipse]] recorded by the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greeks]]. * [[46 BC]] &ndash; [[Julius Caesar]] defeats [[Caecilius Metellus Scipo]] and [[Marcus Porcius Cato]] ([[Cato the Younger]]) in the [[Battle of Thapsus]]. * [[402]] &ndash; [[Stilicho]] stymies the [[Visigoths]] under [[Alaric I|Alaric]] in the [[Battle of Pollentia]]. * [[1199]] &ndash; [[Richard I of England]] dies from an infection following the removal of an [[arrow]] from his [[shoulder]]. His brother, [[John of England]], succeeds him. * [[1250]] &ndash; [[Seventh Crusade]]: [[Ayyubids]] in [[Egypt]] capture King [[Louis IX of France]] in the [[Battle of Fariskur]]. * [[1320]] &ndash; The [[Scotland|Scots]] reaffirm their independence by signing the [[Declaration of Arbroath]]. * [[1327]] &ndash; The poet [[Petrarch]] first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of [[Saint Claire]] in [[Avignon]]. * [[1385]] &ndash; [[John I of Portugal]] becomes [[King]]. * [[1453]] &ndash; [[Mehmed II]] begins his [[Siege of Constantinople]]. * [[1580]] &ndash; Areas around the [[English Channel]] experience once of their strongest [[earthquake]]s, at an estimated magnitude of over 5. It affects Southeastern [[England]], Northern [[France]] and present–day [[Belgium]]. * [[1652]] &ndash; [[Netherlands|Dutch]] sailor [[Jan van Riebeeck]] establishes a resupply camp at the [[Cape of Good Hope]], which will eventually develop into [[Cape Town]]. * [[1667]] &ndash; [[Dubrovnik]] is destroyed by an [[earthquake]], killing 5,000 people. * [[1782]] &ndash; [[Rama I]] succeeds King [[Taksin]] of [[Thailand]], who was overthrown in a [[coup d'état]]. * [[1793]] &ndash; During the [[French Revolution]], the [[Committee of Public Safety]] becomes the executive organ of the [[republic]]. * [[1808]] &ndash; [[John Jacob Astor]] incorporates the [[American Fur Company]]. * [[1812]] &ndash; British forces under command of [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]] assault the fortr