Today in History for February 1600

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Historical Events

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4th - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague
8th - Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
17th - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, charged of heresy.
19th - The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.

Famous Birthdays

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2nd - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)

Famous Deaths

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13th - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
15th - Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?)
17th - Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake


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