Richard the Lionheart is fatally wounded by a crossbow bolt during a siege in France, he dies eleven days later. The marksman, a french noble named Pierre Basile, is executed.,
William Caxton printed his translation of ''Aesop's Fables''. <!--Based on the date in Caxton's epilogue. See http://www.bartleby.com/39/7.html & http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13182/13182-8.txt -->,