354 Historic Events for December 9
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| 536 |
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Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten
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| 656 |
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Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion
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| 1165 |
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Malcom IV, king of Scotland (1153-65), dies at 24
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| 1212 |
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Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
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| 1292 |
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Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies
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| 1315 |
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Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
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| 1392 |
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Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria)
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| 1425 |
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Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
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| 1437 |
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Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70
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| 1561 |
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Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
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| 1565 |
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Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66
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| 1569 |
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Martinus de Porres, Peru, saint (patron of social justice)
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| 1570 |
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Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
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| 1571 |
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Adrian A Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect
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| 1581 |
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Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daughter of Willem of Orange
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| 1594 |
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Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
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| 1608 |
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John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost)
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| 1625 |
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Netherlands and England sign military treaty
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| 1625 |
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Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Frisian humanist/historian, dies at 78
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| 1636 |
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Giovanni B Aleotti, Ital writer/theater architect, dies at about 90
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| 1640 |
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Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
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| 1641 |
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Anthonie "Antoon" van Dyck, Flemish painter, dies at 42
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| 1658 |
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Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
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| 1669 |
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Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Ital Pope (1667-69), dies
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| 1674 |
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Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), dies at 65
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