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374 Events for 'August 5' in the Database.

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08/05/0135 Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
Type: Event
08/05/1071 Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe
Type: Event
08/05/1157 Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
Type: Death
08/05/1264 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
Type: Event
08/05/1391 Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
Type: Event
08/05/1391 Jews are massacred in Toledo and Barcelona Spain
Type: Event
08/05/1399 Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers
Type: Event
08/05/1420 Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina
Type: Event
08/05/1435 Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Arag¢n captured by Genuezen
Type: Event
08/05/1540 Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
Type: Birth
08/05/1543 French and Turkish troops occupy Nice
Type: Event
08/05/1583 Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
Type: Event
08/05/1587 Spanish troops conquer Lock
Type: Event
08/05/1604 John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized
Type: Birth
08/05/1607 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer
Type: Birth
08/05/1623 Antonio Cesti, composer
Type: Birth
08/05/1624 William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
Type: Birth
08/05/1644 J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61
Type: Death
08/05/1654 French troops occupy Stenay
Type: Event
08/05/1666 English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter
Type: Event
08/05/1667 State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict
Type: Event
08/05/1694 Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer
Type: Birth
08/05/1711 Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer
Type: Birth
08/05/1716 Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks
Type: Event
08/05/1745 Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
Type: Event
08/05/1749 Thomas Lynch, signer (Declaration of Independence)
Type: Birth
08/05/1772 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia
Type: Event
08/05/1775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
Type: Event
08/05/1778 Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22
Type: Death
08/05/1781 Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet
Type: Event
08/05/1792 Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60
Type: Death
08/05/1797 Friedrich August Kummer, composer
Type: Birth
08/05/1802 Niels H Abel, Norwegian mathematician (Abel's Comparisons)
Type: Birth
08/05/1811 C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer (Ca‹d, Fran‡oise de Rimini)
Type: Birth
08/05/1813 Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet
Type: Birth
08/05/1813 Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-general
Type: Birth
08/05/1815 Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica)
Type: Birth
08/05/1822 Johann Georg Herzog, composer
Type: Birth
08/05/1823 Joseph E Labb‚, French lawyer
Type: Birth
08/05/1828 WFAA Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway/princess of Netherlands
Type: Birth
08/05/1828 Giovanni Rossi, composer
Type: Birth
08/05/1829 Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer
Type: Birth
08/05/1829 Milo Smith Hascall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
Type: Birth
08/05/1830 Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68
Type: Death
08/05/1830 James A Healy, 1st black bishop in America
Type: Birth
08/05/1834 Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 71
Type: Death
08/05/1837 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY
Type: Event
08/05/1843 James Scott Skinner, composer
Type: Birth
08/05/1846 Oregon country divided between US and Britain at 49th parallel
Type: Event
08/05/1850 Anton Simon, composer
Type: Birth

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