📅 On this day in 1652:

At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.

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📅 On this day in 1580:

One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.

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📅 On this day in 1453:

Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople. The city falls on May 29 and is renamed Istanbul.

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📅 On this day in 1320:

The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

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📅 On this day in 945:

Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII crowns his son Romanos II as co-emperor.

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📅 On this day in 402:

Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.

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