This day in History - January 13

373 Historic Events for January 13
533 Death Remigius van Reims, 1st bishop of Reims (459-533)/saint, dies about 96
858 Death Aethelwolf, king of Wessex (Battle at Aclea), dies
888 Event Duke Odo becomes king of West-France
888 Death Charles III, the Fat One, King of Franconia/Roman emperor, dies
1049 Death Derrick IV, Count of Holland (1039-49), dies in battle
1099 Event Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
1177 Death Hendrik Jasomirgott Babenberg, Duke of Austria, dies
1307 Death Arnoud van Foreest, Dom deacon of Utrecht, dies
1330 Death Frederick (III), the Handsome, duke of Austrian/German anti-king, dies
1381 Birth St Colette, abbess/reformer (Poor Clares)
1406 Birth Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Della vita civile)
1488 Death Hermann Vischer, "the Old", buried
1505 Birth Joachim II Hector, ruler (Brandenburg)
1547 Event Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death
1559 Event Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1596 Birth Jan J Goyen, Dutch landscape painter
1599 Death Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46
1610 Event Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
1616 Birth Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic
1621 Event Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)
1625 Death Pieter Bruegel "the Older", (Bloemenbruegel), Flemish painter, dies
1628 Birth Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose)
1630 Event Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
1651 Death Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies at 86
1673 Event Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris