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  On this day in history birth of sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer  

1611  On this day in history birth of james Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)  

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  On this day in history birth of pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian  

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

1130  Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83 on this day in history.  

1285  Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

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

1400  Death of Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374) on this day in history.  

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

1529  Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies on this day in history.  

1536  On this day in history catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies