EVENTS
1525: Battle of Pavia
In the extended war between France and Italy, the Battle of Pavia
was a decisive engagement in which King
Francis I of France was taken prisoner and the French army
was nearly destroyed.
WHO WAS BORN
1304: Ibn Battutah
Ibn
Battutah was a great Arab traveller who wrote the famous
Rihlah (Travels). This book describes his extensive journeys
to almost all the Muslim countries and to regions as far as China and
Sumatra.
1463: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Author of De hominis dignitate oratio ("Oration on the
Dignity of Man"), Pico
della Mrandola was a scholar and Platonist philosopher who was
known for combining various philosophies, particularly attempting to
reconcile Christian and Classical theories.
1557: Holy Roman Emperor Matthias
Matthias
sponsored a revival of Catholicism in the Protestant-controlled
Habsburg domains of the empire, which eventually led to the Thirty
Years' War.
WHO DIED
616: King Aethelbehrt of Kent
Aethelbehrt
was the first Christian king of England and was converted by
St. Augustine of
Canterbury.
