Events & Holidays In January - 07

Christmas (Julian Calendar) (Macedonia Moldova)

Easrer Day (Sudan)

Ethiopian Christmas (Genna) (Ethiopia)

Orthodox Christmas (International)

St. John's Day (Bulgaria)

Tumbes Anniversary (Peru)

Victory Day Over the Genocidal Regime (Cambodia)

Russian Orthodox Christmas (Kyrgyzstan Russia)

1355  Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397) was born on this day in history.   

1528  On this day in history birth of jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV   

1539  Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer was born on this day in history.   

1611  James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans) was born on this day in history.   

1612  On this day in history birth of paul de La Pierre, composer   

1634  On this day in history birth of adam Krieger, German composer   

1647  Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677) was born on this day in history.   

1652  Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian was born on this day in history.   

0312  Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint, dies on this day in history.   

1130  On this day in history baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83   

1285  On this day in history charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58   

1325  Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies on this day in history.   

1400  On this day in history death of thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)   

1451  On this day in history amadeus VIII, last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67   

1529  On this day in history peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies   

1536  Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies on this day in history.