EVENTS THAT HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today in History on This Day in History

649 - Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1027 - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France
1264 - Battle at Lewes during the 2nd Barons War: Simon van Leicester beats English King Henry III
1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
1509 - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
1576 - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
1607 - 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va
1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
1610 - Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1638 - Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon
1643 - Louis XIV (4) becomes King of France
1664 - Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
1702 - England & Netherlands declares war on France & Spain
1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw
1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
Famous Birthdays

Born Today

Director George Lucas (1944)


1316 - Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355-78). Dies 1378
1553 - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
1652 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1679 - Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer
1686 - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor (thermometer) [NS=5/24]
1699 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1701 - William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
1707 - Antonio Teixeira, composer
1710 - Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70)
1725 - Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
1727 - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), baptized
1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)
1752 - Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
1752 - Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 7 of 7
1962 - Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
1994 - Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds television producer Darnay Hoffman (46) at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City
1996 - Actor Antonio Banderas (35) weds actress Melanie Griffith (38) at the Westminster register office in London
1999 - "Sunset Beach" actor Clive Robertson (33) weds actress Libby Purvis (30) at sunset on Necker Island
2004 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark (35), eldest son of Margrethe II of Denmark and heir apprent, marries Mary Elizabeth Donaldson (32), at Copenhagen Cathedral
2005 - The Beverly Hills, 90210 actor Jason Priestley (35) weds British makeup artist Naomi Lowde at the One & Only Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas
2011 - Country singer Blake Shelton (34) weds singer Miranda Lambert (27) at Don Strange Ranch in Boerne, Texas

Famous Deaths

Passed Away Today

Founder of Heinz Henry John Heinz (1919)
347 - Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
649 - Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies
964 - John XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1565 - Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies
1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
1610 - Henry IV, 1st Bourbon King of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56
1643 - Louis XIII, King of France (1610-43), dies at 41
1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1726 - John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies
1726 - Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies
1742 - Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop, dies at 64