418 Historic Events for February 18
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| 999 |
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Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies
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| 1129 |
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Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II
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| 1217 |
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Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59
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| 1397 |
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Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56
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| 1404 |
Birth |
Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura)
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| 1455 |
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Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies
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| 1478 |
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Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel
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| 1503 |
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Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
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| 1516 |
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Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)
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| 1535 |
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Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, dies at 48
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| 1535 |
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Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, physician/theologian, dies
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| 1536 |
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France and Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel
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| 1546 |
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Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62
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| 1559 |
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Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian
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| 1563 |
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Huguenot Jean Poltrot de M‚r‚ shoots gen Fran‡ois De Guise
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| 1564 |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88
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| 1574 |
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Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
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| 1587 |
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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 [OS=Feb 8]
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| 1609 |
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Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67)
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| 1632 |
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Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer
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| 1634 |
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Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution
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| 1660 |
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Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried
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| 1677 |
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Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (rings of Saturn)
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| 1678 |
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John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published
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| 1683 |
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Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62
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