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01/21/0879
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Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies
Type: Death
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01/21/1077
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German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
Type: Event
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01/21/1118
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Paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies
Type: Death
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01/21/1189
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Philip II, Henry II and Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
Type: Event
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01/21/1276
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Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V
Type: Event
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01/21/1324
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Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai and Shingon
Type: Event
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01/21/1337
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Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1522
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Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
Type: Event
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01/21/1542
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Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
Type: Event
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01/21/1571
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John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1596
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John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66
Type: Death
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01/21/1604
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Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
Type: Event
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01/21/1609
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Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68
Type: Death
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01/21/1626
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John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62
Type: Death
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01/21/1659
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Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect
Type: Birth
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01/21/1664
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Count Mikl˘s of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
Type: Event
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01/21/1665
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Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72
Type: Death
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01/21/1665
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Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63
Type: Death
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01/21/1670
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Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80
Type: Death
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01/21/1677
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1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
Type: Event
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01/21/1683
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61
Type: Death
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01/21/1686
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Nicolas-Fran‡ois Blondel, French architect, dies
Type: Death
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01/21/1704
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Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83
Type: Death
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01/21/1732
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Russia and Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
Type: Event
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01/21/1735
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Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer
Type: Birth
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01/21/1743
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John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1746
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Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60
Type: Death
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01/21/1746
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Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard and Gertrude) [NS]
Type: Birth
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01/21/1751
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Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer
Type: Birth
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01/21/1759
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Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot
Type: Birth
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01/21/1762
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Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
Type: Birth
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01/21/1771
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Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director
Type: Birth
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01/21/1774
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Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56
Type: Death
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01/21/1775
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Manuel Garcia, composer
Type: Birth
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01/21/1789
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1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
Type: Event
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01/21/1792
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Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, Fries story teller (Rhymes and Tales)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1793
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Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
Type: Event
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01/21/1793
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Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38
Type: Death
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01/21/1796
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John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author
Type: Birth
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01/21/1799
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Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
Type: Event
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01/21/1801
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Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer
Type: Birth
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01/21/1813
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Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111)
Type: Event
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01/21/1813
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John C Fr‚mont, [Pathfinder], map maker/explorer (western US)/Gov (AZ)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1814
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Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer
Type: Birth
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01/21/1815
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M Claudius, writer, dies at 74
Type: Death
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01/21/1815
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Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1818
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Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
Type: Event
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01/21/1821
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John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed)
Type: Birth
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01/21/1821
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Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
Type: Event
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01/21/1823
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Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer
Type: Birth
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