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1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured after the battle making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable).
1509 - Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
1610 - Henri IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1643 - Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
1836 - The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
1868 - Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
1870 - The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1879 - The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrives in Fiji aboard the ;Leonidas.
1889 - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
1913 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1925 - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
1927 - ;Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
1927 - The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
1929 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
1931 - Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1935 - The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 - World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1943 - A Japanese submarine sinks AHS;Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
1948 - Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1955 - Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1961 - American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.

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2025

1 JanuaryNew Year's Day (Capodanno)
6 JanuaryEpiphany (Epifania)
5 FebruarySant' Agata (Festa di Sant'Agata)
25 MarchAnniversary of Arengo (Anniversario dell'Arengo)
1 AprilCaptains Regent Day (Cerimonia di Insediamento)
20 AprilEaster (Pasqua)
21 AprilEaster Monday (Lunedì dell'Angelo, Pasquetta)
1 MayLabour Day (Festa dei Lavoratori)
19 JuneCorpus Cristi (Corpus Domini)
28 JulyAnniversary of the Fall of Fascism (Liberazione dal Fascismo)
15 AugustAssumption of Mary (Assunzione, Ferragosto)
3 SeptemberAnniversary of the foundation of the Republic
1 OctoberCaptains Regent Day (Cerimonia di Insediamento)
1 NovemberAll Saints (Ognissanti or Tutti i santi)
2 NovemberAll Souls' Day (Il giorno dei morti)
8 DecemberImmaculate Conception (Immacolata Concezione, Immacolata)
24 DecemberChristmas Eve (Vigilia di Natale)
25 DecemberChristmas (Natale)
26 DecemberBoxing Day (Santo Stefano)
31 DecemberNew Year's Eve (Vigilia di capodanno)
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Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino
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Capital: San Marino
Official languages: Italian
Government: Republic
Currency: Euro (EUR)
Population: 30 013
Area: 61,6 km²
Religion: Catholicism
Time Zone:
UTC +1 winter
UTC +2 summer
Auto Code: SM
Internet TLD: .sm
Calling code: +378
Corporate Income Tax: 17%
Personal Income Tax: 12-50%
Value Added Tax: 0%
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