1856. The constitution of the new state of Deseret was established by a people's convention at Salt Lake city, Utah territory.
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1118. Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem, died, and was buried on mount Calvary. He accompanied his brother, Godfrey de Bouillon, to Palestine during the crusades, and on the death of Godfrey was made king.
1141. Maud declared queen of England in a national synod.
1196. William Longbeard, a factious priest, executed. He was notorious for raising seditions in London, during the reign of Richard I. He was torn to pieces by horses, and then hung upon a gallows.
1498. Charles VIII, (the affable,) king of France, died. He was crowned king of Naples, and emperor of Constantinople, but afterwards met with reverses, and was driven back into France.
1521. Magellan erected the Spanish standard on one of the Philippine islands.
1656. Jerome Bignon, a French statesman, died. He was born 1590, and his attainments were so rapid that at the age
of 10 he published a description of Palestine, and at the age of 14 a treatise on the election of the popes.
1668. William Davenant, an English poet and dramatist, died. He succeeded Ben Jonson as poet laureate, and obtained a patent for a theatre in Lincoln's Inn fields, which was in operation a number of years.