27 BC: The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate

1412: The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy

1547: Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself first tsar of Moscow

1605: The first edition of “El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid

1793: French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution

1913: British House of Commons accepts Home Rule for Ireland (but the Great War gets in the way of it happening)

1920: 1st assembly of the League of Nations is held in Paris

Source: Οnthisday.com