151 Historic Events for February 29
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| 468 |
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Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
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| 468 |
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St Hilary, Catholic Pope (461-468), dies
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| 642 |
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Oswald, English missionaries/saint, dies in battle
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| 1468 |
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Paul III, last Renaissance pope (1534-49)
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| 1504 |
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Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
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| 1528 |
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Patrick Hamilton, Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake
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| 1604 |
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John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604), dies at about 74
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| 1692 |
Birth |
Edward Cave, England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine)
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| 1692 |
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Sarah Good and Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
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| 1695 |
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English ex-premier Earl Danby accused of corruption
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| 1696 |
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Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer
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| 1704 |
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French and Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 50, abduct 100
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| 1720 |
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Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns
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| 1728 |
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Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner)
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| 1736 |
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Anna Lee, Manchester England, founder (Shaker movement in America)
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| 1784 |
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Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille
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| 1784 |
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Franz KL von Klenze, German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg)
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| 1792 |
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Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville)
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| 1792 |
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Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist (discovered human ovum)
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| 1796 |
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Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England
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| 1796 |
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[Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgian astronomer/meteorology
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| 1799 |
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Augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington
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| 1812 |
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Hermann Hirschboch, German composer
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| 1816 |
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Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna
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| 1820 |
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Adolf Schimon, composer
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