352 Historic Events for August 7
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| 317 |
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Flavius Julius Constantius II, Emperor Egypt/Byzantine/Rome (337-61)
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| 626 |
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Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated
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| 768 |
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Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 936 |
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Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
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| 1033 |
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Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine
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| 1106 |
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Henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54
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| 1409 |
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Council of Pisa closes
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| 1479 |
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Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI
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| 1485 |
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Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales
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| 1498 |
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Columbus arrives in Caribbean
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| 1547 |
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Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies
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| 1573 |
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Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth
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| 1575 |
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Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died
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| 1588 |
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-8] English assault on Spanish Armada
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| 1598 |
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Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules)
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| 1609 |
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Eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60
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| 1616 |
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Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies
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| 1620 |
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Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
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| 1620 |
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Battle at Ponts-the-C‚, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
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| 1657 |
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Robert Blake, English admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57
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| 1710 |
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Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
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| 1712 |
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Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, dies at 48
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| 1742 |
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Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General
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| 1746 |
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Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian
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| 1750 |
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Slave uprising on Cura‡ao
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