Talking Heads with Ismail Merchant (Aired: February 2013)

The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.[1]

The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.[2]

The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.

At least 73,000 people died in the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty.[3]

New Church Day: Emanuel Swedenborg wrote: "The Lord sent forth His twelve disciples, who followed Him in the world into the whole spiritual world to preach the Gospel that the Lord God Jesus Christ reigns. This took place on the 19th day of June, in the year 1770."