This day in History - January 30

445 Historic Events for January 30
1077 Event Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1156 Death Herman van Horn, bishop of Utrecht (1151/52-56), dies
1349 Event Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
1349 Event Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1384 Death Louis van Male, count of Flanders/Nevers/R‚thel, dies
1393 Death Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball
1393 Death Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball
1467 Event Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king M ty s Corvinus beats Bratr¡ci
1487 Event Bell chimes invented
1522 Event Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
1544 Event Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
1563 Birth Franciscus Gomarus, [Fran‡ois Gomaer], Dutch theologist/opera singer
1566 Birth Alessandro Piccinini, composer
1584 Death Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies
1584 Death Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle
1592 Event Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1609 Birth Wenzel E Frst von Lobkowitz, Austrian chencellor (-1674)
1616 Birth William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury)
1624 Birth Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher (About Virtue)
1628 Birth George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham England
1644 Death William Chillingworth, Engl theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies
1647 Birth Konrad Hoffler, composer
1647 Event King Charles I handed over to English parliament
1647 Event Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for œ400
1648 Event Spain and Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending Tachtigjarige War