536. Rome opened her gates to Belisarius; the garrison departed without molestation along the Flaminian way, and the city, after sixty years of servitude, was delivered from the yoke of the barbarians. Leutherius, the Gothic chief, was sent to bear the keys of the city to his imperial master.
1282. Llewellyn ap Grufydd, a Welsh prince, killed. He heroically resisted the invasion of Edward I of England; but fell, and the liberty of his country perished with him after an independence of 800 years.
1506. Bologna captured by pope Julius I, who entered in triumph.
1508. The league of Cambray formed against the Venitian power. The pope, the emperor of Germany, and the kings of France and Spain, were the parties to it.
1520. Luther destroyed the papal bull against himself, with the works of the anti reformers, in a public fire behind the walls of Wittemberg.
1548. Battle of Pinckney field, near
Musselburgh, in which 13,000 of the Scots were slain.
1577. On Sanctobertis eve a great number of persons paraded the streets of Perth in disguise. One clad in the devil's coat; the horse of another walked in men's shoes.
1586. Elizabeth signed the warrant for the execution of Mary.
1626. Edmund Gunter, an English mathematician and astronomer, died. He distinguished himself by many important improvements in mathematical instruments for the use of navigation, &c.