This day in History - January 7

404 Historic Events for January 7
312 Death Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint, dies
754 Event Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
1130 Death Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83
1285 Death Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58
1325 Event Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal
1325 Death Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies
1451 Death Amadeus VIII, last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67
1528 Birth Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV
1529 Death Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies
1536 Death Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies
1537 Death Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
1539 Birth Sebasti n de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer
1558 Event Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
1566 Death Ludovicus Blosius, [Louis de Blois "Dacrianus"], wrtier, dies
1566 Event Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1566 Event Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1579 Event England signs an offensive and defensive alliance with Netherland
1584 Event Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and Holy Roman empire
1590 Death Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1591 Death Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59
1598 Event Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
1598 Death Theodorus I, [Fedor Ivanovitch], czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1601 Event Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1608 Event Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 Event Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede