428 Historic Events for August 15
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Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered
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| 423 |
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Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies
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| 778 |
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Battle at Roncevalles: Basques beat Charles the Great
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| 1038 |
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Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies
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| 1057 |
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Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
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| 1118 |
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Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies
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| 1308 |
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Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece
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| 1432 |
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Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)
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| 1457 |
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Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed
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| 1464 |
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Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58
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| 1519 |
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Panama City founded
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| 1534 |
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Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
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| 1535 |
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Asunci¢n, Paraguay founded
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| 1548 |
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Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France
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| 1549 |
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Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan
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| 1576 |
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Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies
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| 1600 |
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Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60
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| 1615 |
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Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies
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| 1619 |
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Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies
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| 1619 |
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Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate
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| 1620 |
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Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
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| 1635 |
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1st recorded US hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
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| 1653 |
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-16] Dutch ship "Sperwer" stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea
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| 1658 |
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France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond
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| 1666 |
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Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies
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