A Daily Dose of History (13 May 2023) Today's historical events:

• Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book Revelations of Divine Love.
• Amerigo Vespucci, this time under Portuguese flag, set sail for western lands.
• Famous sword duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on the shores of Ganryū Island. Kojiro dies at the end.
• Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
• Venetian fleet under Admiral Cort Adeler beats Turkish.
• War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
• The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.
• Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
• Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
• Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on the Federal Republic of Mexico following a dispute over the American annexation of the Republic of Texas and a Mexican military incursion.
• American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights.
• The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
• Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
• The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.

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