340 Historic Events for October 31
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| 802 |
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Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out
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| 834 |
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1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints
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| 1291 |
Birth |
Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet
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| 1345 |
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Ferdinand I, the wise one, king of Portugal (built navy)
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| 1424 |
Birth |
Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary
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| 1448 |
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Johannes VIII Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantine, dies
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| 1517 |
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Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation
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| 1541 |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti's paints "last judgement" in 16th Chapel
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| 1541 |
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Hendrik van Kinschot, Dutch lawyer
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| 1552 |
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Emperor Karel and Markgraaf Albecht strike siege for Metz
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| 1556 |
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John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50
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| 1596 |
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English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant"
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| 1617 |
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Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of East-Indies
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| 1620 |
Birth |
John Evelyn, British diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin)
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| 1632 |
Birth |
Jan Vermeer, Holland, painter (Procuress, Astronomer)
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| 1634 |
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Erasmus Widmann, composer, dies at 62
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| 1638 |
Birth |
Meindert Hobbema, Amsterdams landscape painter, baptised
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| 1641 |
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Cornelis C Jol, [Houtebeen], adm (South-America), dies at about 41
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| 1654 |
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Francisco Correa de Arauxo, composer, dies
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| 1661 |
Death |
Mehmed K”prl, Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies
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| 1664 |
Death |
Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz, viceroy of Friesland, dies at 51
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| 1705 |
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Clemens XIV, [Giovanni Ganganelli], Pope (1769-74)
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| 1714 |
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Georg Ludwig van Hannover crowned as English King George I
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| 1723 |
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Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723), dies at 81
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| 1740 |
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William Paca, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
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