This day in History - March 6

417 Historic Events for March 6
766 Death Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50
1079 Event Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
1205 Event Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
1323 Event Treaty of Paris
1405 Birth Johan II, King of Castille
1447 Event Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1459 Birth Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant
1460 Event Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa
1475 Birth Michelangelo, painter (David)
1483 Birth Francesco Guicciardini, Ital attorney/president of Romagna
1492 Birth Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer
1495 Birth Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione)
1521 Event Magellan discovers Guam
1579 Event Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
1583 Death Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48
1590 Event Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
1615 Birth Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y)
1615 Death Pieter Both, Dutch admiral/1st gov-gen (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns
1616 Birth Malachias Siebenhaar, composer
1616 Death Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
1619 Birth Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, playwright (Voyage to the Moon)
1628 Event Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
1646 Event Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1664 Event King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1665 Event Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing