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Historical Events
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771 - Karel, the Great, becomes king of all France
771 - Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
1110 - Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
1197 - Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
1259 - Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III & French king Louis IX
1489 - Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
1534 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1563 - Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
1619 - America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
1619 - 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
1644 - 1st European peace congress opens in Munster
1655 - Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue
1665 - Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand," premieres in Paris
1674 - Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
1676 - Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
Famous Birthdays
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1443 - Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
1555 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)
1580 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)
1584 - John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony
1595 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)
1646 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730)
1660 - Andre Campra, composer
1667 - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer
1670 - John Aislabie, English politician (d. 1742)
1708 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer
1711 - Barbara of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1758)
1713 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)
1720 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer
1777 - Juliette Récamier, French socialite (d. 1849)
1786 - John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament [or 12/14]
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 15 of 98
765 - Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)
771 - Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20
771 - Carloman, King of the Franks (b. 751)
811 - Charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39
1075 - Archbishop Anno II of Cologne
1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
1137 - Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67
1182 - Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies
1214 - William I of Scotland
1270 - Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre
1334 - Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
1340 - Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
1371 - Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1371 - Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies
1459 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
