437 Historic Events for February 5
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Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
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| 1428 |
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King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
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| 1488 |
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Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
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| 1512 |
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French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
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| 1556 |
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Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles
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| 1572 |
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Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out
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| 1576 |
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Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
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| 1578 |
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Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies
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| 1589 |
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Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet
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| 1591 |
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Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
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| 1626 |
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Marie de S‚vign‚, Paris, letter-writer (Portrait in Letters)
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| 1631 |
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Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
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| 1644 |
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1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
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| 1649 |
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Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
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| 1658 |
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Maria Margaretha van Angels, Dutch prioress at Oirschot, dies at 52
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| 1662 |
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Giuseppi Vignola, composer
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| 1663 |
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Earthquake in Canada
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| 1679 |
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German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
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| 1679 |
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Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91
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| 1685 |
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Charles II, king of England (1660-85)/Nell Gwynns lover, dies at 54?
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| 1705 |
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Jean Gilles, composer, dies at 37
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| 1711 |
Birth |
Joseph Umstatt, composer
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| 1721 |
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James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general, dies at 47
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| 1723 |
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John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
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| 1732 |
Birth |
Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer
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