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08/07/0317
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Flavius Julius Constantius II, Emperor Egypt/Byzantine/Rome (337-61)
Type: Birth
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08/07/0626
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Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated
Type: Event
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08/07/0768
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Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
Type: Event
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08/07/0936
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Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
Type: Event
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08/07/1033
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Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine
Type: Death
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08/07/1106
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Henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54
Type: Death
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08/07/1409
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Council of Pisa closes
Type: Event
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08/07/1479
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Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI
Type: Event
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08/07/1485
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Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales
Type: Event
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08/07/1498
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Columbus arrives in Caribbean
Type: Event
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08/07/1547
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Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies
Type: Death
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08/07/1573
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Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth
Type: Event
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08/07/1575
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Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died
Type: Event
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08/07/1588
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-8] English assault on Spanish Armada
Type: Event
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08/07/1598
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Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules)
Type: Birth
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08/07/1609
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Eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60
Type: Death
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08/07/1616
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Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies
Type: Death
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08/07/1620
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Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
Type: Event
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08/07/1620
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Battle at Ponts-the-C‚, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
Type: Event
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08/07/1657
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Robert Blake, English admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57
Type: Death
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08/07/1710
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Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
Type: Event
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08/07/1712
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Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, dies at 48
Type: Death
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08/07/1742
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Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General
Type: Birth
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08/07/1746
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Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian
Type: Birth
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08/07/1750
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Slave uprising on Cura‡ao
Type: Event
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08/07/1751
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Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange/wife of Willem V
Type: Birth
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08/07/1760
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Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
Type: Event
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08/07/1779
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Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
Type: Birth
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08/07/1782
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George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart
Type: Event
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08/07/1783
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John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)
Type: Birth
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08/07/1786
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Friedrich Schwindl, composer, dies at 49
Type: Death
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08/07/1789
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Congress creates Dept of War and Lighthouse Service
Type: Event
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08/07/1798
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Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65
Type: Death
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08/07/1799
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John Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58
Type: Death
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08/07/1802
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Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
Type: Event
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08/07/1814
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Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits
Type: Event
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08/07/1816
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Dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae), dies at 77
Type: Death
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08/07/1818
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Henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist
Type: Birth
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08/07/1819
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Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
Type: Event
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08/07/1820
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1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
Type: Event
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08/07/1823
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Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer
Type: Birth
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08/07/1826
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Carl AE Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi)
Type: Birth
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08/07/1829
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Thomas Ewing Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1896
Type: Birth
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08/07/1833
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Powell Clayton, Brig General (Union volunteers)/(Gov-R-Ark)
Type: Birth
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08/07/1836
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Evander McIvor Law, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1920
Type: Birth
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08/07/1846
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Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76
Type: Death
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08/07/1848
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Freiherr J”ns J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight), dies at 68
Type: Death
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08/07/1867
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Battle of Moorefield, WV
Type: Event
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08/07/1867
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Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63
Type: Death
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08/07/1867
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Emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist
Type: Birth
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