369 Historic Events for December 19
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| 401 |
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St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 401 |
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Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies
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| 1036 |
Birth |
Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher
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| 1055 |
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Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad
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| 1154 |
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King Henry II of England crowned
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| 1370 |
Death |
Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies
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| 1498 |
Birth |
Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist
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| 1551 |
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Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
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| 1562 |
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Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency and huguenots under Cond‚ captured
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| 1614 |
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Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67
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| 1676 |
Birth |
Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist
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| 1683 |
Birth |
Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
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| 1686 |
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Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
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| 1688 |
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King James II's wife and son flee to France
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| 1696 |
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Jean-Fran‡ois Regnard's "Le Joueur," premieres in Paris
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| 1723 |
Birth |
Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother
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| 1732 |
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Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
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| 1741 |
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Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies
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| 1744 |
Birth |
Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland
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| 1749 |
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Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76
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| 1753 |
Birth |
John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy)
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| 1776 |
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Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
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| 1777 |
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Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
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| 1778 |
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Marie-Th‚rŠse-Charlotte, daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
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| 1779 |
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Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, Paris France, engraver
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