328 Historic Events for December 29
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| 1141 |
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Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed
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| 1170 |
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Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II
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| 1503 |
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Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France
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| 1539 |
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St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning
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| 1541 |
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Isabella of Poland and King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu
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| 1558 |
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Charles V, German emperor, buried
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| 1558 |
Death |
Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31
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| 1563 |
Birth |
Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer
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| 1586 |
Birth |
Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona
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| 1619 |
Death |
Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies
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| 1630 |
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Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51
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| 1678 |
Birth |
Gotthard Wagner, composer
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| 1689 |
Death |
Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried
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| 1703 |
Death |
Mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39
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| 1705 |
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Prosper Jolyot's "Idomen‚e," premieres in Paris
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| 1708 |
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Great Alliance occupies Gent
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| 1709 |
Birth |
Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia/daughter of Peter the Great
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| 1721 |
Birth |
Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
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| 1731 |
Death |
J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46
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| 1743 |
Birth |
Alexander van Bylandt, Dutch military officer
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| 1767 |
Birth |
Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer
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| 1776 |
Birth |
Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
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| 1778 |
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English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia
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| 1782 |
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1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
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| 1785 |
Death |
Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69
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