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