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02/29/0468
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Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
Type: Death
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02/29/0468
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St Hilary, Catholic Pope (461-468), dies
Type: Death
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02/29/0642
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Oswald, English missionaries/saint, dies in battle
Type: Death
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02/29/1468
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Paul III, last Renaissance pope (1534-49)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1504
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Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
Type: Event
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02/29/1528
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Patrick Hamilton, Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake
Type: Death
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02/29/1604
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John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604), dies at about 74
Type: Death
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02/29/1692
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Sarah Good and Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
Type: Event
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02/29/1692
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Edward Cave, England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1695
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English ex-premier Earl Danby accused of corruption
Type: Event
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02/29/1696
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Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer
Type: Birth
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02/29/1704
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French and Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 50, abduct 100
Type: Event
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02/29/1720
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Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns
Type: Event
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02/29/1728
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Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1736
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Anna Lee, Manchester England, founder (Shaker movement in America)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1784
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Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille
Type: Event
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02/29/1784
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Franz KL von Klenze, German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1792
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Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1792
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Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist (discovered human ovum)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1796
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Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England
Type: Event
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02/29/1796
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[Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgian astronomer/meteorology
Type: Birth
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02/29/1799
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Augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington
Type: Birth
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02/29/1812
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Hermann Hirschboch, German composer
Type: Birth
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02/29/1816
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Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna
Type: Event
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02/29/1820
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Adolf Schimon, composer
Type: Birth
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02/29/1828
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Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela
Type: Birth
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02/29/1832
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Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil
Type: Event
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02/29/1836
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Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Les Huguenots," premieres in Paris
Type: Event
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02/29/1840
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John Philip Holland, Liscannor Ireland, pioneer in submarine building
Type: Birth
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02/29/1844
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Thaddaus Weigl, composer, dies at 67
Type: Death
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02/29/1848
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Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
Type: Event
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02/29/1852
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Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer
Type: Birth
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02/29/1852
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John Landseer, printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies
Type: Death
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02/29/1856
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Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
Type: Event
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02/29/1860
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Herman Hollerith, inventor (1st electric tabulating machine)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1868
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1st British govt of Disraeli forms
Type: Event
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02/29/1868
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[Charles] Louis I [Augustus], King of Bavaria (L Montez), dies at 81
Type: Death
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02/29/1869
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W E B DuBois, famous African
Type: Birth
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02/29/1880
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Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed
Type: Event
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02/29/1884
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Alfred Sendrey, composer
Type: Birth
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02/29/1890
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John Philip Holland, father of modern submarine
Type: Birth
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02/29/1892
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Britian and US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
Type: Event
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02/29/1896
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Omer C F L Tulippe, Belgian geographer
Type: Birth
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02/29/1896
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Ranchhodji Morarji Desai, premier of India (1977-79)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1896
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Stanley Swash, CEO (Woolworths)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1896
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William W Wellman, Brookline Mass, director (Star is Born)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1896
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Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer
Type: Birth
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02/29/1900
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Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
Type: Birth
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02/29/1900
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Y˘rgos Sef‚ris, [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi)
Type: Birth
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02/29/1904
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Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal
Type: Event
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