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>AD 14 – Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards under mysterious circumstances while in exile.
>1191 – Richard I of England initiates the Massacre at Ayyadieh, leaving 2,600–3,000 Muslim hostages dead.
>1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
>1710 – War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
>1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
>1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
>1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
>1890 – H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor and novelist, was born (died 1937).
>1914 – World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
