1848. Gunpowder explosion at Vera Cruz, by which several buildings were injured and 20 persons killed, mostly women.
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1137. The greater part of the city of York, its cathedral, and 39 churches burned.
1453. Alvarez de Luna, a Spanish statesman, executed. He acquired such an ascendancy over the king that he was himself the monarch more than 30 years.
1520. A famous interview between the kings of England and France, near Guisnes.
1561. St. Paul's, London, burnt, having stood nearly four centuries. Its dimensions were 960 feet in length, 130 in breadth, and surmounted by a spire 520 feet high.
1585. Mark Anthony Muretus died; a French critic and poet.
1663. William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury, died. He was the friend of Laud, by whose influence he was promoted, and by whose fall he was a great sufferer. He was exemplary in his conduct and irreproachable in the discharge of his
duties; and on the restoration was raised to the see of Canterbury.
1665. John Lawson, an English admiral, killed.