397 Historic Events for February 19
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Birth |
Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)
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| 197 |
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Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
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| 197 |
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D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle
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| 356 |
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Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples
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| 607 |
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Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 842 |
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Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches
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| 1260 |
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Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies
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| 1401 |
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William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London
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| 1414 |
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Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies
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| 1473 |
Birth |
Nicolaus Copernicus, Tor£n, Poland, astronomer (heliocentrism)
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| 1512 |
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French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia
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| 1532 |
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Jean-Antoine de Ba‹f, French poet (Les amours de M‚line)
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| 1537 |
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Weavers of Leiden Neth strike
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| 1539 |
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Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
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| 1545 |
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Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death
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| 1553 |
Death |
Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
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| 1568 |
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Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80
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| 1574 |
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Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer and Jisp Neth
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| 1582 |
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Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant
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| 1588 |
Birth |
Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
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| 1605 |
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Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer, dies at 54
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| 1611 |
Birth |
Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71)
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| 1616 |
Birth |
Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer
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| 1619 |
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Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague
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| 1620 |
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Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam
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