In Events:
| July 31st 0432 | | St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
| | July 31st 0768 | | [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
| | July 31st 0904 | | Saraceens hijacker Leo van Tripoli occupies & plunders Thessalonica
| | July 31st 1291 | | Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
| | July 31st 1498 | | Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
| | July 31st 1588 | | English fleet beats Spanish Armada
| | July 31st 1620 | | Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
| | July 31st 1653 | | Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux
| | July 31st 1658 | | Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
| | July 31st 1664 | | Pierre Corneille's "Othon," premieres in Paris
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In Births:
| July 31st 1396 | | Philips, the Good, Duke of Burgundy//Brabant/Limburg/count
| | July 31st 1443 | | Albrecht III of Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon
| | July 31st 1527 | | Maximilian II, German King/Emperor (1564-76)
| | July 31st 1550 | | Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster
| | July 31st 1578 | | Catharina Belgica of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange
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In Deaths:
| July 31st 1358 | | Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies
| | July 31st 1556 | | Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder (Jesuit), dies at about 65
| | July 31st 1556 | | St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome
| | July 31st 1566 | | Bartholom‚ de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92
| | July 31st 1648 | | Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60
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