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01/25/0749
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Leo IV, the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (775-80)
Type: Birth
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01/25/0844
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Gregory IV begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Type: Event
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01/25/1037
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Su Tung-p'o, [J Sotoba], China, layman/poet/administrator [or Dec 19]
Type: Birth
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01/25/1138
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Anacletus II, [Pietro Pierleone], Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies
Type: Death
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01/25/1139
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Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant
Type: Event
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01/25/1139
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Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies
Type: Death
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01/25/1327
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King Edward III accedes to British throne
Type: Event
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01/25/1348
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Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000
Type: Event
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01/25/1477
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Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII
Type: Birth
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01/25/1494
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Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples
Type: Event
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01/25/1494
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Ferdinand I, cruel king of Naples, dies
Type: Death
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01/25/1509
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Giovanni Morone, Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic"
Type: Birth
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01/25/1533
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England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
Type: Event
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01/25/1540
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Edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1547
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Lieven Algoet, Flemish humanist, dies
Type: Death
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01/25/1554
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Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
Type: Event
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01/25/1565
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Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army
Type: Event
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01/25/1579
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Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
Type: Event
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01/25/1586
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Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70
Type: Death
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01/25/1615
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Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1626
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John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam, landscape painter
Type: Birth
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01/25/1627
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Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1634
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Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/pension advisor of Holland (1672-88)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1640
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Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies
Type: Death
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01/25/1693
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Anna Ivanova Romanova, daughter of Ivan V/empress of Russia (1730-40)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1708
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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter
Type: Birth
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01/25/1721
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Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
Type: Event
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01/25/1726
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Guillaume Delisle, French geographer (Atlas g‚ographique), dies at 50
Type: Death
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01/25/1728
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Antoine Court de G‚belin, French vicar/writer
Type: Birth
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01/25/1733
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Reinier V van Hompech, Dutch gen-maj cavalry, dies
Type: Death
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01/25/1736
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Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician
Type: Birth
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01/25/1741
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Benedict Arnold, general/traitor (US revolution)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1744
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Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64
Type: Death
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01/25/1750
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Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer
Type: Birth
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01/25/1759
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Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1766
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Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king Willem I
Type: Birth
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01/25/1770
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Francis Burdett, British politician
Type: Birth
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01/25/1775
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Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
Type: Event
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01/25/1777
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Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1787
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Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass
Type: Event
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01/25/1796
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William McGillivray, Old Aberdeen, naturalist
Type: Birth
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01/25/1799
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1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
Type: Event
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01/25/1802
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Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
Type: Event
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01/25/1806
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Daniel Maclise, Irish painter
Type: Birth
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01/25/1814
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Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor (Union), died in 1899
Type: Birth
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01/25/1817
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Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
Type: Event
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01/25/1820
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Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79
Type: Death
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01/25/1821
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Johan Valckenier, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62
Type: Death
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01/25/1825
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1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
Type: Event
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01/25/1826
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Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP
Type: Birth
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