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-*[[1009]] - The [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]], a Christian [[church]] in [[Jerusalem]], is completely destroyed by the [[Fatimid]] [[caliph]] [[Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah]], who hacks the Church's foundations down to [[bedrock]].  
-*[[1016]] - The [[Danish people|Dane]]s defeat the [[Saxon people|Saxon]]s in the [[Battle of Ashingdon]]. 
-*[[1210]] - Pope [[Innocent III]] excommunicates German leader [[Otto IV]]  
-*[[1356]] - [[Basel earthquake]], the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps destroyed the town of [[Basel]], Switzerland 
-*[[1561]] - [[Battles of Kawanakajima|Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima]] -- [[Takeda Shingen]] defeats [[Uesugi Kenshin]] in the climax of their ongoing conflicts 
-*[[1648]] - Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization. 
-*[[1685]] - [[Louis XIV of France]] revokes the [[Edict of Nantes]], which has protected French Protestants 
-*[[1748]] - Signing of the [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)|Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]] ends the [[War of the Austrian Succession]]. 
-*[[1767]] - [[Mason-Dixon line]], survey separating [[Maryland]] from [[Pennsylvania]] is completed. 
*[[1775]] - [[African-American]] poet [[Phillis Wheatley]] freed from slavery. *[[1775]] - [[African-American]] poet [[Phillis Wheatley]] freed from slavery.
*[[1851]] - [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' is first [[Publishing|published]] as ''The Whale'' by [[Richard Bentley]] of [[London]]. *[[1851]] - [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' is first [[Publishing|published]] as ''The Whale'' by [[Richard Bentley]] of [[London]].

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