6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

Event

Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies

Death

Clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies

Death

Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic"

Event

Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies

Death

Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed

Death

Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45

Death

Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72

Death

Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants

Event

Sicke Freerks/Frericx, [Cutter], Dutch anabaptist, beheaded

Death

Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded

Death

Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77

Death

Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the C‚

Event

French king Henri IV and duke van Mercour sign treaty

Event

United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

Event

Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

Event

Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50

Death

Matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies

Death

France and Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism

Event

Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)

Birth

Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35

Death

Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)

Birth

Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"

Event

Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies

Death

Abdl-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89)

Birth