597 BC Babylonians captured Jerusalem, replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
37 the emperor Tiberius died at the age of 78 and was succeeded by Caligula.
1072 Adalbert, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen and guardian and tutor to Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, died.
1190 Massacre of the Jews at York, England. In one of the most shameful events in English history, an angry mob besieged Jewish residents of York in Clifford's Tower. Rather than be killed by their attackers, many of the Jews took their own lives, and some perished in the fire that followed.
1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge took place in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1485 Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England died.
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