This day in History - February 19

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