December 17 1273 – Persian mystic and poet Rumi dies 1398 – The army of Mahmud Tughluk, Sultan of Delhi, is destroyed by the Mongols at Panipat 1526 – Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero, forming Inquisition 1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates England’s King Henry VIII 1777 – The French foreign minister, […]

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