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>79 – Traditional date of Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
>1185 – Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
>1215 – Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.
>1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
>1482 – The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.
>1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
>1643 – A Dutch fleet establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile.
>1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
>1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown (lol, cope)).
>1743 – The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.
>1812 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
>1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.
>1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
