Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)

Birth

Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon

Event

D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle

Death

Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples

Event

Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope

Event

Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches

Event

Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies

Death

William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London

Death

Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies

Death

Nicolaus Copernicus, Tor£n, Poland, astronomer (heliocentrism)

Birth

French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia

Event

Jean-Antoine de Ba‹f, French poet (Les amours de M‚line)

Birth

Weavers of Leiden Neth strike

Event

Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled

Event

Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death

Death

Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41

Death

Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80

Death

Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer and Jisp Neth

Event

Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant

Event

Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies

Birth

Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer, dies at 54

Death

Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71)

Birth

Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer

Birth

Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague

Event

Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam

Death