374 Historic Events for August 5
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| 135 |
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Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
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| 1071 |
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Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe
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| 1157 |
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Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
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| 1264 |
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Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
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| 1391 |
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Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
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| 1391 |
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Jews are massacred in Toledo and Barcelona Spain
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| 1399 |
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Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers
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| 1420 |
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Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina
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| 1435 |
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Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Arag¢n captured by Genuezen
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| 1540 |
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Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
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| 1543 |
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French and Turkish troops occupy Nice
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| 1583 |
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Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
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| 1587 |
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Spanish troops conquer Lock
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| 1604 |
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John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized
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| 1607 |
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Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer
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| 1623 |
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Antonio Cesti, composer
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| 1624 |
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William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
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| 1644 |
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J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61
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| 1654 |
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French troops occupy Stenay
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| 1666 |
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English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter
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| 1667 |
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State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict
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| 1694 |
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Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer
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| 1711 |
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Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer
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| 1716 |
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Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks
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| 1745 |
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Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
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