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Historical Event(s)
– Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as “Holmes’s Bonfire”.
– The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral.
– The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
– In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
– Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.
– At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
Who Were Born On ?
– Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
– George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
– Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
– John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
– Maria Sofia of Neuburg, German-born consort of Peter II of Portugal (d. 1699)
– William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
– Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
– Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
– Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
– Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)