1200 – In China, sunglasses are invented. To learn more, click here.
1252 – King Alfonso X “el Sabio” of Castile/Leon crowned
1347 – Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha, daughter of Jan III
1481 – Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559) born
1506 – Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia (1516-26) born
1534 – Frederick II, King of Denmark and Norway (1559-88) born
1535 – Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
1536 – Mary and Elizabeth declared illegitimate by Parliament
1543 – The Treaties of Greenwich are signed, approving of a marriage between Prince Edward and Mary, Queen of Scots
1690 – Army of Protestant King William III defeats deposed Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland
1766 – Jean-François de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire‘s Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
