Events & Holidays In February - 21

Birthday of King Harald V (Norway)

Ekushey Day (Martyr's Day) (Bangladesh)

International Mother Language Day (International)

Shaheed Dibash (Bangladesh)

1417  On this day in history birth of louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)   

1484  On this day in history birth of joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution)   

1556  On this day in history birth of sethus Calvisius, composer   

1674  On this day in history birth of johann Augustin Kobelius, composer   

1675  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)   

1684  Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator) was born on this day in history.   

1690  Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer was born on this day in history.   

1705  On this day in history birth of edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)   

0556  On this day in history maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies   

1437  On this day in history death of king James I of Scotland (b. 1394)   

1471  On this day in history death of john of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop   

1513  Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1554  On this day in history hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies   

1595  Death of Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged on this day in history.   

1624  On this day in history dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28   

1648  Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies on this day in history.