1264 - Battle of Lewes, 2nd Barons' War: Simon de Montfort the younger, Earl of Leicester, defeats English King Henry III
1643 - Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4
1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine
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