Events & Holidays In February - 07
Friday, 26 July 2024
Independence Day (Grenada)
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States of America)
Independence Day (Grenada)
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States of America)
1102 On this day in history birth of empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
1478 On this day in history birth of thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)
1478 On this day in history birth of sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)
1556 On this day in history birth of maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren
1589 Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician was born on this day in history.
1612 On this day in history birth of thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)
1655 On this day in history birth of jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)
1688 Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange was born on this day in history.
0590 On this day in history pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague
0999 Death of Boleslaus II of Bohemia on this day in history.
1045 On this day in history death of emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
1317 Death of Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256) on this day in history.
1560 Death of Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493) on this day in history.
1593 Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79 on this day in history.
1609 On this day in history ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
1626 On this day in history death of william V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)