Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies

Death

Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II

Event

Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59

Death

Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56

Death

Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura)

Birth

Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies

Death

Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel

Death

Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)

Event

Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)

Birth

Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, dies at 48

Death

Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, physician/theologian, dies

Death

France and Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel

Event

Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62

Death

Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian

Birth

Huguenot Jean Poltrot de M‚r‚ shoots gen Fran‡ois De Guise

Event

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88

Death

Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels

Event

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 [OS=Feb 8]

Death

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67)

Birth

Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer

Birth

Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution

Event

Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried

Death

Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (rings of Saturn)

Birth

John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published

Event

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62

Death