Historical Events In December - 23
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
0245 On December - 23 zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
0558 Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 on this day in history.
0619 Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope on December - 23.
0679 On December - 23 dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered
0910 On December - 23 naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
0913 On December - 23 conrad of Franconia
0918 Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies on this day in history.
0962 On this day in history byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist.
1116 On December - 23 ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies
1174 Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach on this day in history.
1230 Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England on December - 23.
1236 Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies on December - 23.
1482 On this day in history peace of Atrecht
1493 Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published on December - 23.
1502 On this day in history margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57
1544 On this day in history anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)
1548 On this day in history pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)
1568 On this day in history roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
1569 On December - 23 st Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1569 St Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible on this day in history.
1582 On this day in history severo Bonini, composer
1588 Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 on December - 23.
1597 Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" on this day in history.
1619 Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on December - 23.
1620 On this day in history construction on the Plymouth Settlement Begins
1620 On this day in history french huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII
1644 Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer on this day in history.
1652 On December - 23 john Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68
1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn on this day in history.
1688 English king Jacob II flees to France on this day in history.
1688 Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21 on this day in history.
1689 On December - 23 joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer
1690 On this day in history john Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
1696 On this day in history johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60