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28 December| 28 December 1105 | France, Toulouse, Fatimid Caliphate, Syria [Crusades (1095–1272)] | Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, dies while besieging Tripoli, one of the few major Muslim strongholds remaining on the Syrian coast. | | 28 December 1337 | Flanders, England [political events] | James van Artevelde becomes the accepted leader of the Flemings, who are in revolt against the Count of Flanders because of the hardship caused by the English embargo on the export of wool to Flanders. | | 28 December 1744 | UK, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Germany, Poland, United Netherlands [War of the Austrian Succession (1740–46)] | The Quadruple Alliance of Great Britain, Austria, Saxony and Poland (under the same ruler), and the United Netherlands is formed against Prussia. | | 28 December 1856 | USA [births and deaths] | (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth president of the USA 1913–21, a Democrat, born in Staunton, Virginia (–1924). | | 28 December 1908 | Italy [natural disasters] | An earthquake hits the region of the Strait of Messina, between Sicily and South Calabria, Italy, estimated to measure 7.5 on the Richter scale. The towns of Messina in Sicily and Reggio di Calabria on the mainland are the worst hit, and are both devastated, with Reggio di Calabria suffering a tidal wave following the earthquake. Estimates of the death toll vary between 75,000 and 200,000, most deaths occurring in the two towns. It is Europe's worst earthquake. |
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