This day in History - February 12

434 Historic Events for February 12
1049 Event Bruno count of Egesheim and Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
1111 Event German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
1128 Death Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies
1130 Event Pope Innocent II elected
1211 Birth Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35)
1242 Death Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide
1438 Birth Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1474 Birth Lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat
1502 Event Granada] Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
1528 Event Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power
1538 Death Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57
1541 Event Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24)
1554 Death Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded
1554 Death Jane Grey, queen of England for 13 days, beheaded at 17
1567 Birth Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician
1577 Event Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
1584 Birth Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring)
1585 Birth Caspar Bartholin, Malm”, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy
1588 Birth John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st gov of Mass
1590 Death Fran‡ois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65
1616 Death John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65
1624 Event English parliament comes together
1636 Birth Herman Witsius, [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist
1637 Birth John Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature)
1663 Birth Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority