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Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.[1]

The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.[2]

Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).

The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.

A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.[3]

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