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This Day in History for Sunday 19th May 2013

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 15 of 181

715 - St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1506 - Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
1515 - George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
1517 - Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
1547 - Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
1568 - English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
1571 - Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
1585 - Spain confisquates English ships
1608 - Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
1635 - France declares war on Spain
1643 - Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army
1643 - Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England
1649 - An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1652 - Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
1662 - Uniformity Act of England goes into effect

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Famous Birthdays

Born Today

Swimmer Florence Chadwick (1918)

Birthdays 1 - 15 of 210

1469 - Giovanni della Robbia, Italian sculptor
1611 - Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89)
1616 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer
1700 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
1724 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
1744 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
1746 - Johann Friedrich Peter, composer
1755 - Gabriele Prota, composer
1762 - Johann G Fichte German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre)
1770 - Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer
1773 - Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
1795 - Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
1797 - Maria Isabel of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1818)
1808 - Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1812 - Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1853 - Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar
1979 - Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
1997 - Film and stage actor Matthew Broderick (50) weds Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker (47) in New York
2006 - "Liverpool" goalkeeper Pepe Reina (23) weds Yolanda Ruiz in Cordoba, Spain
2008 - Film actress Jessica Alba (31) weds film/TV producer Cash Warren (33) at the Beverly Hills Courthouse in Beverly Hills, California
2012 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (28) weds his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan at a small ceremony in Palo Alto, California

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Famous Deaths

Passed Away Today

British Prime Minister William Gladstone (1898)

Deaths 1 - 15 of 100

804 - Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69
988 - Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045)
1125 - Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
1296 - Celestine V, [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies
1319 - Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
1389 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
1531 - Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
1536 - Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded
1601 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer
1610 - Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
1637 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
1647 - Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies