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Japanese warlord. He was the founder of the Tokugawa dynasty of shoguns, seizing power after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. Becoming the first shogun in 1603, he relinquished the role two years later but remained in effective power until his death in 1616. More at: History
954 – Lothair III, aged 13, is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi, Reims, king of the West Frankish Kingdom. 1865 – English writer Elizabeth Gaskell dies; her works including the novel Cranford and a biography of her friend Charlotte Bronte. 1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan…
