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433 Events for 'January 5' in the Database.

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01/05/1066 Edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies
Type: Death
01/05/1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand
Type: Event
01/05/1387 Pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily, dies at 67
Type: Death
01/05/1425 John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned
Type: Death
01/05/1438 Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
Type: Event
01/05/1463 French poet Fran‡ois Villon banished from Paris
Type: Event
01/05/1477 Charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer, dies at 43
Type: Death
01/05/1477 Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switz, 7000+ killed
Type: Event
01/05/1500 Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan
Type: Event
01/05/1524 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73
Type: Death
01/05/1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry
Type: Event
01/05/1548 Francisco Su rez, Granada Spain, philosopher/theologian
Type: Birth
01/05/1554 Great fire in Eindhoven Neth
Type: Event
01/05/1560 William Cobbold, composer
Type: Birth
01/05/1589 Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69
Type: Death
01/05/1592 Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75
Type: Death
01/05/1592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal
Type: Birth
01/05/1593 William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
Type: Event
01/05/1595 Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies
Type: Death
01/05/1596 Henry Lawes, English composer
Type: Birth
01/05/1603 Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead, dies at 73
Type: Death
01/05/1620 Mikl¢s Zr¡nyi, Hungarian poet/writer (The Peril of Sziget) [or May 1]
Type: Birth
01/05/1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
Type: Event
01/05/1649 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
Type: Event
01/05/1661 Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer
Type: Birth
01/05/1675 Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg
Type: Event
01/05/1679 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer
Type: Birth
01/05/1684 Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44
Type: Death
01/05/1709 Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
Type: Event
01/05/1710 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer
Type: Birth
01/05/1717 Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
Type: Event
01/05/1719 Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact
Type: Event
01/05/1729 Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter
Type: Birth
01/05/1740 Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
Type: Death
01/05/1746 Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer, dies at 53
Type: Death
01/05/1757 Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens
Type: Event
01/05/1759 Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Neth cardinal, dies at 79
Type: Death
01/05/1759 Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader
Type: Birth
01/05/1762 Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52 [NS]
Type: Death
01/05/1769 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics)
Type: Birth
01/05/1773 Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer
Type: Birth
01/05/1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
Type: Event
01/05/1778 Fortunato Santini, composer
Type: Birth
01/05/1779 Stephen Decatur, US, naval hero (War of 1812)
Type: Birth
01/05/1779 Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak)
Type: Birth
01/05/1780 Claire EJ, countess of R‚musat/Vergennes/French author (Salon)
Type: Birth
01/05/1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
Type: Event
01/05/1783 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday
Type: Death
01/05/1787 John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
Type: Birth
01/05/1788 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer
Type: Birth

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