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02/12/1049
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Bruno count of Egesheim and Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
Type: Event
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02/12/1111
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German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
Type: Event
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02/12/1128
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Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies
Type: Death
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02/12/1130
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Pope Innocent II elected
Type: Event
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02/12/1211
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Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35)
Type: Birth
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02/12/1242
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Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide
Type: Death
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02/12/1438
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Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
Type: Birth
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02/12/1474
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Lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat
Type: Birth
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02/12/1502
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Granada] Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
Type: Event
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02/12/1528
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Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power
Type: Event
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02/12/1538
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Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57
Type: Death
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02/12/1541
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Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24)
Type: Event
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02/12/1554
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Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded
Type: Death
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02/12/1554
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Jane Grey, queen of England for 13 days, beheaded at 17
Type: Death
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02/12/1567
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Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician
Type: Birth
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02/12/1577
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Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
Type: Event
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02/12/1584
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Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring)
Type: Birth
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02/12/1585
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Caspar Bartholin, Malm”, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy
Type: Birth
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02/12/1588
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John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st gov of Mass
Type: Birth
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02/12/1590
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Fran‡ois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65
Type: Death
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02/12/1616
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John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65
Type: Death
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02/12/1624
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English parliament comes together
Type: Event
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02/12/1636
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Herman Witsius, [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist
Type: Birth
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02/12/1637
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John Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature)
Type: Birth
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02/12/1663
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Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority
Type: Birth
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02/12/1665
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Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician (sexuality plant)
Type: Birth
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02/12/1684
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Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer, dies at 67
Type: Death
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02/12/1706
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Josef Christian, German sculptor
Type: Birth
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02/12/1709
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Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe")
Type: Event
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02/12/1728
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Agostino Steffani, Italian/German diplomat/composer, dies at 73
Type: Death
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02/12/1733
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Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
Type: Event
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02/12/1736
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Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor Fran‡ois I)
Type: Event
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02/12/1738
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James Sherard, composer, dies at 71
Type: Death
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02/12/1740
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Matej Sojka, composer
Type: Birth
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02/12/1751
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Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer
Type: Birth
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02/12/1753
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Lambert-Fran‡ois Godecharle, composer
Type: Birth
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02/12/1758
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Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer
Type: Birth
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02/12/1760
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Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemia, pianist/composer
Type: Birth
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02/12/1762
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Laurent Belissen, composer, dies at 68
Type: Death
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02/12/1762
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English fleet occupies Martinique
Type: Event
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02/12/1763
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John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
Type: Event
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02/12/1768
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Francis II, Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806)
Type: Birth
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02/12/1771
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Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70), dies at 60
Type: Death
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02/12/1772
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Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
Type: Event
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02/12/1775
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Louise Catherine Johnson Adams, 1st lady (1825-1829)
Type: Birth
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02/12/1778
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Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
Type: Birth
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02/12/1787
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Ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75
Type: Death
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02/12/1791
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Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)
Type: Birth
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02/12/1791
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Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)
Type: Birth
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02/12/1792
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Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Belgian painter
Type: Birth
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