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Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 214
306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
864 - The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
1139 - Count Alfonso I of Portugal proclaimed King
1261 - Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces under Alexios Strategopoulos for Emperor
Michael VIII, re-establishing Byzantine Empire.
1360 - Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia
1511 - Portuguese forces under Afonso de Albuquerqu first assault the properous trading city of
Malacca, Malay Penninsula
1519 - San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba
1521 - About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
1536 - Sebastin de Belalczar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali.
1538 - The City of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and
given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 - Henry II of France is crowned.
1564 - Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor
1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas,
the capital city of Venezuela.
The Magna
Carta, written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin
1775 - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1792 - Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
1792 - The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal
Family harmed.
1795 - The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war:
18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
1946 - US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 216
975 - Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler
1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1109 - Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85)
1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 - Philips van Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant
1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1517 - Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1575 - Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer
1579 - Valerius Otto, composer
1626 - Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian
1639 - Thomas Tompion, Northill Bedfordshire, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel)
1654 - Agostino Steffani, composer
1657 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1683 - Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright (Wiskunstenaars)
1691 - Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini)
1715 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry)
1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
1761 - Charlotte von Kalb, German writer
1772 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer
1874 - Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Lublin Poland, Russian Chemist who invented the first
commercially viable and mass-produced synthetic rubber
1878 - Heinrich Gebhard, German-born American composer, born in Sobernheim, RhinelandPalatinate (d.1963)
1882 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1883 - Alfredo Casella, Turin Italy, composer (La Giara)
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 5 of 5
Inventor
Charles Babbage (1814)
1814 - Inventor Charles Babbage (21) weds Georgina Whitmore at St. Michael's Church in Devon,
England
1839 - British PM William Gladstone (29) weds Catherine Glynne (27) in England
1986 - Four-time tennis player champ Hana Mandlikova (24) weds restaurateur Jan Sedlak at
Prague's old town hall
1993 - Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
2009 - "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" actor Marc Blucas (37) weds journalist Ryan Haddon (38) in Erie,
Pennsylvania
Famous Divorces
Divorces 1 - 2 of 2
2012 - Actress Sunny Mabrey (36) divorces "Brotherhood" actor Ethan Embry (34) due to
irreconcilable differences after almost 7 years marriage
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 111
306 - Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies
1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
1471 - John Soreth, French general, dies
1492 - Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies
1539 - Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65
1564 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61
1570 - Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed
1580 - Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47
1593 - Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61
1616 - Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies
1624 - Steven van der Haghen, admiral/gov on Ambon 1617-8, dies at about 61
1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1675 - Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61
1676 - Franois Hdelin, abb d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1721 - Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66
1739 - Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogy/chronologist, dies at 73
1759 - Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39
1759 - Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies
1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 - Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies
1804 - William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies
1814 - Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69
1826 - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13]
1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)