285 B. C. Dionysius of Alexandria began his astronomical era. He was the first to find the exact limits of the solar year, which he made to consist of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes.
44 B. C. The memorable conference between Brutus and Cassius, and Cicero at Antium.
363. Julian, emperor of Rome, died, aged 32. He was elected by his soldiery, on the death of Constantius, and soon declared himself a pagan. He was learned and in his private character respectable.
1276. Innocent V (Peter de Tarantaise), pope of Rome, died.
1541. Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish adventurer, assassinated in his own palace, at noonday, by the friends of Almagro, at the age of 63.
1569. Victorius Strigelius died; a learned professor at Leipsic, and one of Luther's first disciples.
1574. Gabriel de Montgomery, a zealous protestant nobleman, beheaded at Paris by order of Catharine, who sacrificed him to her unjust revenge. (See [June 29, 1559].)
1657. Oliver Cromwell solemnly inaugurated lord protector.
1685. Rumbold, the maltster who contrived the Rye house plot taken and executed at Edinburgh.
1688. Ralph Cudworth, a celebrated English divine, died. He was a man of extensive erudition, well skilled in the languages, an able philosopher, an acute mathematician and a profound metaphysician.