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The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
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The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
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End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
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A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine d...
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After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
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Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for p...
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Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Alm...
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Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the C...
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En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished ...
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