412 Historic Events for March 13
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| 483 |
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St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 607 |
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12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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| 1138 |
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German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
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| 1202 |
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Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
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| 1516 |
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Vladislav II Jagiello, king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60
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| 1519 |
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Cortez lands in M‚xico
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| 1548 |
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Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
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| 1558 |
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Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies
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| 1560 |
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Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
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| 1564 |
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Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
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| 1567 |
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Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
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| 1569 |
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Louis Cond‚, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle
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| 1569 |
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Lodewijk Cond‚, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies
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| 1569 |
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Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
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| 1573 |
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Michel de l'H“pital, chancellor of France (1560-68), dies at about 65
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| 1591 |
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Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
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| 1599 |
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Johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint
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| 1615 |
Birth |
Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)
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| 1619 |
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Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare), dies
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| 1634 |
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Acad‚mie Fran‡aise opens
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| 1639 |
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Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
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| 1656 |
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Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
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| 1677 |
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Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
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| 1696 |
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Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal
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| 1700 |
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James Kent, composer
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