This day in History - January 21

387 Historic Events for January 21
879 Death Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies
1077 Event German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1118 Death Paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies
1189 Event Philip II, Henry II and Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1276 Event Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V
1324 Event Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai and Shingon
1337 Birth Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)
1522 Event Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1542 Event Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
1571 Birth John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)
1596 Death John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66
1604 Event Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
1609 Death Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68
1626 Death John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62
1659 Birth Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect
1664 Event Count Mikl¢s of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1665 Death Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72
1665 Death Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63
1670 Death Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80
1677 Event 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1683 Death Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61
1686 Death Nicolas-Fran‡ois Blondel, French architect, dies
1704 Death Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83
1732 Event Russia and Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
1735 Birth Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer