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Historical Events
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164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
235 - St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
496 - St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
695 - Pope Sergius names Willibrord as archbishop Clemens of Friezen
1272 - Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
1317 - Frederik of Sierck/Zyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht
1492 - Pinta under Martin A Pinzon separates from Columbus's fleet
1620 - Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass
1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod
1654 - Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1696 - J Vanbrughes "Relapse or Virtue in Danger," premieres in London
1729 - Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville
1759 - Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians
1783 - Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
1787 - Andrew Jackson admitted to bar
Famous Birthdays
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1495 - John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)
1561 - Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author
1567 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)
1637 - Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)
1645 - Johann Lohner, composer
1683 - Johann Michael Muller, composer
1692 - Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet
1694 - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778)
1724 - John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist
1729 - Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge/signer (Decl of Independence)
1742 - Alessandro Felici, composer
1761 - Dorothy Jordan, British actress (d. 1816)
1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher
1785 - William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)
1787 - Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)
Famous Deaths
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496 - Pope Gelasius I
1361 - Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
1481 - Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87
1555 - Georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61
1566 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)
1579 - Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier
1580 - Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed
1610 - Benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies
1652 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
1695 - Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36
1710 - Barnardo Pasquini, composer, dies at 72
1728 - Fjodor M graaf Apraksin, Russian gen-admiral, dies at about 57
1730 - François de Troy, French portrait artist
1775 - John Hill, British writer
1811 - Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34
