375 Historic Events for March 14
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| 840 |
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Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
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| 1272 |
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Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies
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| 1298 |
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Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies
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| 1490 |
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Charles I, Duke of Savoy, dies at 21
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| 1558 |
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Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
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| 1559 |
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Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht and Woudrichem, Neth
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| 1559 |
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Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed
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| 1573 |
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Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny, dies
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| 1590 |
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Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League
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| 1590 |
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Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30
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| 1612 |
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Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74
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| 1623 |
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Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer
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| 1629 |
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England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1644 |
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England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
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| 1647 |
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Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63
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| 1653 |
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Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
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| 1681 |
Birth |
Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer
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| 1682 |
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Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53
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| 1689 |
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Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as king and queen
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| 1692 |
Birth |
Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar)
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| 1726 |
Birth |
Josef Antonin Stepan, composer
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| 1727 |
Birth |
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer
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| 1734 |
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Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
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| 1743 |
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1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
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| 1755 |
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Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer
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