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02/05/0816
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Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
Type: Event
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02/05/1428
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King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
Type: Event
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02/05/1488
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Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
Type: Event
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02/05/1512
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French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
Type: Event
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02/05/1556
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Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles
Type: Event
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02/05/1572
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Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out
Type: Event
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02/05/1576
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Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
Type: Event
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02/05/1578
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Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies
Type: Death
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02/05/1589
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Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet
Type: Birth
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02/05/1591
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Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
Type: Death
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02/05/1626
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Marie de S‚vign‚, Paris, letter-writer (Portrait in Letters)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1631
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Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
Type: Event
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02/05/1644
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1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
Type: Event
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02/05/1649
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Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
Type: Event
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02/05/1658
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Maria Margaretha van Angels, Dutch prioress at Oirschot, dies at 52
Type: Death
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02/05/1662
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Giuseppi Vignola, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1663
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Earthquake in Canada
Type: Event
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02/05/1679
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German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
Type: Event
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02/05/1679
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Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91
Type: Death
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02/05/1685
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Charles II, king of England (1660-85)/Nell Gwynns lover, dies at 54?
Type: Death
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02/05/1705
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Jean Gilles, composer, dies at 37
Type: Death
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02/05/1711
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Joseph Umstatt, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1721
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James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general, dies at 47
Type: Death
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02/05/1723
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John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
Type: Birth
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02/05/1732
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Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1736
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Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
Type: Event
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02/05/1738
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Georg Reidel, composer, dies at 61
Type: Death
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02/05/1744
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John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist
Type: Birth
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02/05/1745
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Coelestin Praelisauer, composer, dies at 49
Type: Death
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02/05/1748
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Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven
Type: Birth
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02/05/1753
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Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Frisian regent/patriot
Type: Birth
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02/05/1754
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Nicolaas S Cruquius, hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer), dies at 75
Type: Death
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02/05/1758
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Bernhard Christian Weber, composer, dies at 45
Type: Death
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02/05/1770
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Alexandre Brongniart, Paris, mineralogist/geologist (Tertiary)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1775
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Margaretha J de Neufville, author (Small Pligten)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1777
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Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail and primogeniture
Type: Event
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02/05/1778
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Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
Type: Event
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02/05/1778
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Robert Peel, British PM (1834-46)/founder (Tories)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1779
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Frans van Campenhout, Belgian vocalist/composer (Braban‡onne)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1782
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Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English
Type: Event
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02/05/1783
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Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
Type: Event
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02/05/1783
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Sweden recognizes US independence
Type: Event
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02/05/1788
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Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1788
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Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British conservative premier/founder (Bobbies)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1795
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Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud
Type: Event
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02/05/1799
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John Lindley, English botanist (Elements of Botany)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1804
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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet
Type: Birth
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02/05/1807
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Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80
Type: Death
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02/05/1810
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Ole Bull, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1812
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Franz Schneider, composer, dies at 74
Type: Death
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