Historical Events
Events
538 – Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
1054 – Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1088 – Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, succeeding Victor III
1144 – Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 – Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 – University of Vienna founded
1455 – First record of Johann Gutenberg’s Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before
1496 – Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 – Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes “Os Lusíados” in Portugal
1594 – Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 – England routes troops to Amiens
1609 – Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 – Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 – Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 – Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
Famous Birthdays
Born Today
1270 – Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)
1336 – Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
1479 – Giuliano de’ Medici, monarch of Florence
1515 – Caspar Othmayr, composer
1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)
1613 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (d. 1700)
1620 – Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
1626 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697)
1637 – Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
1647 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
1672 – Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729)
1685 – George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1710 – Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1718 – Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798)
1755 – Georges Couthon, French politician
Famous Weddings
Weddings
1969 – Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
Famous Deaths
Passed Away Today
417 – Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies
604 – Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64
1209 – Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies
1289 – King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
1374 – Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)
1447 – Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
1471 – Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel, Dutch scholastic theologist, dies
1496 – Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies
1507 – Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1563 – John Bull, composer of British natl anthem (God Save The King), dies
1570 – Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies
1608 – Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
1628 – John Bull, English organist/composer, dies
1648 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63
1681 – French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45
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